The Karoubi envelope and Lee's degeneration of Khovanov homology

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DOI10.2140/AGT.2006.6.1459zbMATH Open1130.57012arXivmath/0606542OpenAlexW3106223585MaRDI QIDQ863066FDOQ863066

Dror Bar-Natan, Scott Morrison

Publication date: 25 January 2007

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a simple proof of Lee's result from [Adv. Math. 179 (2005) 554-586; arXiv:math.GT/0210213], that the dimension of the Lee variant of the Khovanov homology of a c-component link is 2^c, regardless of the number of crossings. Our method of proof is entirely local and hence we can state a Lee-type theorem for tangles as well as for knots and links. Our main tool is the "Karoubi envelope of the cobordism category", a certain enlargement of the cobordism category which is mild enough so that no information is lost yet strong enough to allow for some simplifications that are otherwise unavailable.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606542





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