Khovanov homology and roll-spun slice disks

2026/07/18 by Sang Woo Yoon
Mathematics · #math.GT

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Abstract

We show that Khovanov homology cannot distinguish the roll-spun slice disk from the trivial slice disk bounding the connected sum of a knot and its mirror when composed with a Morse 1-handle.

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