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Knots in Washington XXXVIII: 30 years of the Jones polynomial
May 9-11, 2014
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UT Dallas), Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU and UMCP), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Commuting actions of sl(2) and S_n on sutured annular Khovanov homology
by
Stephan Wehrli
Syracuse University
Coauthors: Eli Grigsby and Tony Licata

To a link L in a thickened annulus, Asaeda-Przytycki-Sikora assigned a Khovanov-type homology theory which categorifies the skein module of the thickened annulus and which is related to a certain knot Floer homology by work of Roberts. In this talk, I will show that this homology theory carries a natural action of sl(2) and, in the case where L is the n-cable of a framed knot K, a commuting action of the symmetric group S_n. In the case where K is the 0-framed unknot, we recover classical Schur-Weyl duality for the nth tensor power of the fundamental representation of sl(2). This is joint work with Eli Grigsby and Tony Licata.

Date received: May 2, 2014


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