The Beilinson-Drinfeld Grassmannian and symplectic knot homology

zbMATH Open1230.14072arXiv0811.1730MaRDI QIDQ3172673FDOQ3172673

Joel Kamnitzer

Publication date: 5 October 2011

Abstract: Seidel-Smith and Manolescu constructed knot homology theories using symplectic fibrations whose total spaces were certain varieties of matrices. These knot homology theories were associated to $SL(n)$ and tensor products of the standard and dual representations. In this paper, we place their geometric setups in a natural, general framework. For any complex reductive group and any sequence of minuscule dominant weights, we construct a fibration of affine varieties over a configuration space. The middle cohomology of these varieties is isomorphic to the space of invariants in the corresponding tensor product of representations. Our construction uses the Beilinson-Drinfeld Grassmannian and the geometric Satake correspondence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1730

zbMATH Keywords

geometric Satake correspondenceKnot invariantsBeilinson-Drinfeld GrassmanianKhovanov categorification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15)

Cited In (4)

• Beilinson–Drinfeld Schubert varieties and global Demazure modules
• Khovanov homology from Floer cohomology
• Seidel-Smith cohomology for tangles
• Two lectures on gauge theory and Khovanov homology

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