A categorification of quantum sl₃ projectors and the sl₃ Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant of tangles

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Abstract: We construct a categorification of the quantum sl_3 projectors, the sl_3 analog of the Jones-Wenzl projectors, as the stable limit of the complexes assigned to k-twist torus braids (as k goes to infinity) in a suitably shifted version of Morrison and Nieh's geometric formulation of sl_3 link homology (math.GT/0612754). We use these projectors to give a categorification of the sl_3 Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant of framed tangles.


In the \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\) case, the Jones-Wenzl projectors were categorified by Rozansky as the stable limit of complexes assigned to \(k\)--twist torus braids with \(k\rightarrow\infty\) (``infinite twists), \textit{L. Rozansky} [Fundam. Math. 225, 305--326 (2014; Zbl 1336.57025)]. These categorified projectors give rise to a categorification of the \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\) Reshetikhin--Turaev invariant of framed tangles. The paper under review does the same thing for \(\mathfrak{sl}_3\). Namely, it categorifies the quantum \(\mathfrak{sl}_3\) projectors as the stable limit of complexes assigned to \(k\)--twist torus braids with \(k\rightarrow\infty\), in a shifted version of Morrison and Nieh's geometric formulation of \(\mathfrak{sl}_3\) link homology [\textit{S. Morrison} and \textit{A. Nieh}, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 17, No. 9, 1121--1173 (2008; Zbl 1300.57013)]. These categorified projectors give rise to a categorification of the \(\mathfrak{sl}_3\) Reshetikhin--Turaev invariant of framed tangles.











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