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Knots in Washington XLIV
April 28-30, 2017
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

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Torsion in Khovanov link homology via chromatic graph cohomology
by
Dan Scofield
North Carolina State University

The categorification of the chromatic polynomial by Helme-Guizon and Rong is isomorphic to Khovanov link homology over a range of homological gradings. Motivated by Hochschild homology, we compute torsion in chromatic homology for certain classes of graphs. As a consequence, we offer insight into Z_2 torsion of certain classes of knots and links.

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Date received: April 10, 2017

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