Fivebranes and knots
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Publication:658979
DOI10.4171/QT/26zbMATH Open1241.57041arXiv1101.3216OpenAlexW2963694066WikidataQ56057592 ScholiaQ56057592MaRDI QIDQ658979FDOQ658979
Authors: Edward Witten 
Publication date: 9 February 2012
Published in: Quantum Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We develop an approach to Khovanov homology of knots via gauge theory (previous physics-based approches involved other descriptions of the relevant spaces of BPS states). The starting point is a system of D3-branes ending on an NS5-brane with a nonzero theta-angle. On the one hand, this system can be related to a Chern-Simons gauge theory on the boundary of the D3-brane worldvolume; on the other hand, it can be studied by standard techniques of -duality and -duality. Combining the two approaches leads to a new and manifestly invariant description of the Jones polynomial of knots, and its generalizations, and to a manifestly invariant description of Khovanov homology, in terms of certain elliptic partial differential equations in four and five dimensions.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3216
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