A link invariant from the symplectic geometry of nilpotent slices

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13432-4zbMATH Open1108.57011arXivmath/0405089OpenAlexW2076293732MaRDI QIDQ854584FDOQ854584

Paul Seidel, Ivan Smith

Publication date: 6 December 2006

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the symplectic geometry of certain manifolds which appear naturally in Lie theory, we define an invariant which assigns a graded abelian group to an oriented link. The relevant manifolds are transverse slices to certain nilpotent orbits inside sl_{2m}, and intersections of those with regular semisimple orbits. The invariant is conjectured to be equal to Khovanov's combinatorially defined homology theory (with the bigrading of that theory collapsed in a certain way).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405089

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zbMATH Keywords

configuration spaceJones polynomialKhovanov homologyLagrangian Floer homologylink invariantbraidsymplectic fiber bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Fibrations, degenerations in algebraic geometry (14D06) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Symplectic aspects of Floer homology and cohomology (53D40) Floer homology (57R58) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45)

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