Khovanov homology and diagonalisable Frobenius algebras

2018/03/27 by Paul Turner, Turner, Paul
Mathematics · #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1803.10079

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Abstract

We give a short elementary proof that a Khovanov-type link homology constructed from a diagonalisable Frobenius algebra is degenerate.

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