ON MUTATION AND KHOVANOV HOMOLOGY

DOI10.1142/S0219199708003113zbMATH Open1188.57007arXiv0801.4937OpenAlexW2963894485MaRDI QIDQ3607441FDOQ3607441

Ilya Kofman, Abhijit Champanerkar

Publication date: 2 March 2009

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is conjectured that the Khovanov homology of a knot is invariant under mutation. In this paper, we review the spanning tree complex for Khovanov homology, and reformulate this conjecture using a matroid obtained from the Tait graph (checkerboard graph) G of a knot diagram K. The spanning trees of G provide a filtration and a spectral sequence that converges to the reduced Khovanov homology of K. We show that the E_2-term of this spectral sequence is a matroid invariant and hence invariant under mutation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4937

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zbMATH Keywords

Khovanov homologymatroidConway mutation

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• A remark on Roberts totally twisted Khovanov homology
• Mutations of homology spheres and Casson's invariant
• Lattices, graphs, and Conway mutation
• A SPANNING TREE MODEL FOR KHOVANOV HOMOLOGY
• Behavior of knot invariants under genus 2 mutation
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• A DETERMINANT FORMULA FOR THE JONES POLYNOMIAL OF PRETZEL KNOTS
• A note on geometric duality in matroid theory and knot theory
• Mutation and Witten invariants
• CWR sequence of invariants of alternating links and its properties

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