Khovanov homology is a skew Howe 2-representation of categorified quantum sl_m

DOI10.2140/AGT.2015.15.2517MaRDI QIDQ894949zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aaron D. Lauda, Hoel Queffelec, David E. V. Rose

Publication date 25 November 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6076

zbMATH Keywords

categorified quantum groupscobordism categoriesKhovanov homologylink homologyskew Howe duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

Abstract: We show that Khovanov homology (and its sl(3) variant) can be understood in the context of higher representation theory. Specifically, we show that the combinatorially defined foam constructions of these theories arise as a family of 2-representations of categorified quantum sl(m) via categorical skew Howe duality. Utilizing Cautis-Rozansky categorified clasps we also obtain a unified construction of foam-based categorifications of Jones-Wenzl projectors and their sl(3) analogs purely from the higher representation theory of categorified quantum groups. In the sl(2) case, this work reveals the importance of a modified class of foams introduced by Christian Blanchet which in turn suggest a similar modified version of the sl(3) foam category introduced here.

Review text

This paper is a study of Khovanov homology. The authors provide a direct construction of foam based \(\mathfrak{sl}(n)\) link homology theories in terms of categorified quantum groups. Then they use Cautis-Rozansky categorified clasps to obtain categorified projectors lifting Jones-Wenzl idempotents. The \(\mathfrak{sl}(2)\) case is studied in details and the importance of the modified class of foams introduced by Christian Blanchet is emphasized.

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