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Knots in Washington XXVI Interconnections between Khovanov, Khovanov-Rozansky and Ozvath-Szabo homology, categorification of skein modules
April 18-20, 2008
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

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Khovanov-Rozansky link homology using foams
by
Marco Mackaay
Universidade do Algarve
Coauthors: Marko Stosic and Pedro Vaz

In my talk I will explain how to use foams to obtain a alternative construction of Khovanov-Rozansky link homology. Our goal was to find a completely combinatorial approach. Unfortunately we have not achieved that goal yet, but we have made some progress which I will explain.

Paper reference: arXiv:0708.2228

Date received: April 7, 2008

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