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Functors extending the Kauffman Bracket
by
John Armstrong
Yale University
We consider the problem of defining a monoidal functor on the category of framed tangles whose restriction to links is an evaluation of the Kauffman bracket. We show that a very large class of such functors correspond to bilinear forms with certain assymetry properties. This gives us an insight into why categorifications of the Bracket work they way they do.
Date received: October 30, 2006
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