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Knots in Washington XXXII, Categorification of Knots, Algebras, and Quandles; Quantum Computing
April 29 - May 1, 2011
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU, NSF), Radmila Sazdanovic (U.Penn), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Mirror knots have dual odd Khovanov homology
by
Krzysztof Putyra
Columbia University
Coauthors: Wojciech Lubawski Polish Academy of Sciences

An odd Khovanov homology is a modification of sl_2 link homology defined in 2008 by P. Ozsvath and Z. Szabo. Instead of a symmetric algebra they used an antisymmetric one and got a different link homology theory that categorifies the Jones polynomial. One year later I generalized both constructions to a theory with three parameters. Together with W. Lubawski we were able to find two gradings in the cube of resolutions, each splitting the cube into isomorphic pieces. This can be used to eliminate two parameters. Hence, up to isomorphism only two theories exist. As a consequence, mirror knots have dual chain complexes in both cases.

Date received: April 28, 2011


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