A link invariant from the symplectic geometry of nilpotent slices (Q854584)

The authors define a link invariant by using symplectic geometry and conjecture that this invariant coincides with the collapsed Khovanov homology. As it is well known, a link can be regarded as the closure of a braid due to \textit{J. W.~Alexander} [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 9, 93--95 (1923; JFM 49.0408.03)]. Markov's theorem says that two braids give the same link if and only if they are related by conjugations and stabilizations [\textit{A. Markoff}, Rec. Math. Moscou, n. Ser. 1, 73--78 (1936; Zbl 0014.04202)]. The authors regard a braid as a loop in the unordered configuration space \(\text{Conf}_{n}(\mathbb{C}):= \{(\mu_{1},\mu_{2},\dots,\mu_{n})\in\mathbb{C}^{n}\mid \text{}\mu_{i}\neq\mu_{j}\) if \(i\neq j\)