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KNOTS IN WASHINGTON XXI: Skein modules, Khovanov homology and Hochschild homology
December 9-11, 2005
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU)

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Unoriented TQFTs and link homology
by
Paul Turner
Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Strasbourg, France
Coauthors: V. Turaev

I will discuss the notion of unoriented topological quantum field theory and provide a classification result in dimension 1+1 in terms of Frobenius algebras with additional structure. A restrictive class of these can be applied to Bar-Natan's geometric setting to obtain link homologies for virtual links. This is joint work with V. Turaev.

Paper reference: arXiv:math.GT/0506229

Date received: November 24, 2005

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