Symplectic topology of SU(2)-representation varieties and link homology, I: Symplectic braid action and the first Chern class

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Authors: Magnus Jacobsson, Ryszard L. Rubinsztein 

Publication date: 18 June 2008

Abstract: There are some similarities between cohomology of SU(2)-representation varieties of the fundamental group of some link complements and the Khovanov homology of the links. We start here a program to explain a possible source of these similarities. We introduce a symplectic manifold $mathscrM$ with an action of the braid group $B_{2n}$ preserving the symplectic structure. The action allows to associate a Lagrangian submanifold of $mathscrM$ to every braid. The representation variety of a link can then be described as the intersection of such Lagrangian submanifolds, given a braid presentation of the link. We expect this to go some way in explaining the similarities mentioned above.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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