Perverse sheaves and knot contact homology

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2017.02.007MaRDI QIDQ524848zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alimjon Eshmatov, Wai-Kit Yeung, Yuri Berest

Publication date 26 April 2017

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02438

zbMATH Keywords

perverse sheafcategorical braid closureco-Cartesian Yang-Baxter operatorGelfand-MacPherson-Vilonen (GMV) operatorknot contact homologyknot DG categoryknot differential graded (DG) algebraReidemeister operatorWada condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Presheaves and sheaves, stacks, descent conditions (category-theoretic aspects) (18F20) Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42)

Abstract: In this paper, which is mostly a research announcement, we give a new algebraic construction of knot contact homology in the sense of L. Ng [Ng05a]. For a link $L$ in ${mathbbR}^3$, we define a differential graded (DG) $k$-category $ildemathscrA$ with finitely many objects, whose quasi-equivalence class is a topological invariant of $L$. In the case when $L$ is a knot, the endomorphism algebra of a distinguished object of $ildemathscrA$ coincides with the fully noncommutative knot DGA as defined by Ekholm, Etnyre, Ng and Sullivan in [EENS13a]. The input of our construction is a natural action of the braid group $B_n$ on the category of perverse sheaves on a two-dimensional disk with singularities at $n$ marked points, studied by Gelfand, MacPherson and Vilonen in [GMV96]. As an application, we show that the category of finite-dimensional representations of the link $k$-category $ildeA=H_0(ildemathscrA)$ defined as the $0$th homology of our DG category $ildemathscrA$ is equivalent to the category of perverse sheaves on ${mathbbR}^3$ which are singular along the link $L$. We also obtain several generalizations of the category $ildemathscrA$ by extending the Gelfand-MacPherson-Vilonen braid action.

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