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Geometry & Topology Seminar

Title: Khovanov homotopy type
Speaker: Sucharit Sarkar (UCLA)
Date: 31 March 2021
Time: 9:00 pm
Venue: MS teams (team code hiq1jfr)

The Khovanov chain complex is a categorification of the Jones polynomial and is built using a functor from Kauffman’s cube of resolutions to Abelian groups. By lifting this functor to the Burnside category, one can construct a CW complex whose reduced cellular chain complex agrees with the Khovanov complex. This produces a Khovanov homotopy type whose reduced homology is Khovanov homology. I will present a general outline of this construction, starting with Khovanov’s functor. This work is joint with Tyler Lawson and Robert Lipshitz.


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Last updated: 29 Mar 2024