arXiv research

Researchers compute $\mathfrak{gl}_2$-skein modules for lens spaces.

The paper shows compatibility between two quantum maps for surfaces and 3-manifolds.

New invariants derived from link homology for 4-manifolds.

New modules derived from Khovanov homology for links.

Researchers calculate dimensions of skein modules for 2-torus mapping tori.

Khovanov homology distinguishes exotic 4-manifolds.

This paper is devoted to an elementary new construction of $1$-singular Gelfand-Tsetlin modules using complex geometry. We introduce a universal ring $\mathcal D_o$ together with the vector space $\mathcal S=\mathcal S(\mathcal D_o)$ with basis $\mathcal B_o = \mathcal B(\mathcal D_o)$ formed from some local distributi…

For every oriented surface of finite type, we construct a functorial Khovanov homology for links in a thickening of the surface, which takes values in a categorification of the corresponding gl(2) skein module. The latter is a mild refinement of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra, and its categorification is constructe…

New invariant for 4-manifolds with framed links, stronger than existing invariants.

We show that we can release the rigidity of the skew Howe duality process for ${\mathfrak sl}_n$ knot invariants by rescaling the quantum Weyl group action, and recover skein modules for web-tangles. This skew Howe duality phenomenon can be extended to the affine ${\mathfrak sl}_m$ case, corresponding to looking at tan…

A map from 3-manifold skein to Lagrangian skein via holomorphic curve counting.

Researchers compute dimensions of GLN-skein modules for genus-one mapping tori.

Frobenius homomorphisms for SL_n skein modules generalize knot theory results.

Develops quantum character theory for complex reductive groups.

Kuperberg introduced web spaces for some Lie algebras which are generalizations of the Kauffman bracket skein module on a disk with marked points. We derive some formulas for $A_1$ and $A_2$ clasped web spaces by graphical calculus using skein theory. These formulas are colored version of skein relations, twist formula…

We use super $q$-Howe duality to provide diagrammatic presentations of an idempotented form of the Hecke algebra and of categories of $\mathfrak{gl}_N$-modules (and, more generally, $\mathfrak{gl}_{N|M}$-modules) whose objects are tensor generated by exterior and symmetric powers of the vector representations. As an ap…

Sliced skein algebras and geometric Kauffman bracket study algebraic structures and their properties.

Kirby color defined in Khovanov homology for 4D handlebodies.

New quantum integrals discovered for a spin chain model.

We explain how Queffelec-Sartori's construction of the HOMFLY-PT link polynomial can be interpreted in terms of parabolic Verma modules for $\mathfrak{gl}_{2n}$. Lifting the construction to the world of categorification, we use parabolic 2-Verma modules to give a higher representation theory construction of Khovanov-Ro…

Study of skein invariants on tori for various groups and quantum parameters.

Study of surface defects in gauge theories leads to duality and separation of variables.

We use Khovanov-Rozansky gl(N) link homology to define invariants of oriented smooth 4-manifolds, as skein modules constructed from certain 4-categories with well-behaved duals. The technical heart of this construction is a proof of the sweep-around property, which makes these link homologies well defined in the 3-sphe…

New basis for quantum gl_N invariants derived from Macdonald polynomials.

In this paper we define an explicit basis for the $\mathfrak{gl}_n$-web algebra $H_n(\vec{k})$ (the $\mathfrak{gl}_n$ generalization of Khovanov's arc algebra) using categorified $q$-skew Howe duality. Our construction is a $\mathfrak{gl}_n$-web version of Hu--Mathas' graded cellular basis and has two major application…

New structure for quantum algebra representations.

Using quantum skew-Howe duality, we study the category $\operatorname{Rep}(\mathfrak{gl}(m|n))$ of tensor products of exterior powers of the standard representation of $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(m|n))$, and prove that it is equivalent to a category of ladder diagrams modulo one extra family of relations. We then construct a ca…

New homology for links in annulus discovered.

We define parameter dependent $\mathfrak{gl}_2$-foams and their associated web and arc algebras, and verify that they specialize to several known $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ or $\mathfrak{gl}_2$ constructions related to higher link and tangle invariants. Moreover, we show that all these specializations are equivalent, and we ded…

Simplified computation of symmetric gl_1 homology for links.

Paper defines and computes a new weight system for gl_N Lie algebra.

Paper compares skein modules to Kauffman bracket modules.

Foams have Lie algebra symmetries that simplify web state spaces.

Quantum cluster algebra constructed from web skein relations on surfaces.

We use the technique of quantum skew Howe duality to investigate the monoidal category of exterior powers of the standard representation of $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(1|1))$. This produces a complete diagrammatic description of the category in terms of trivalent graphs, with the usual MOY relations plus one additional family o…

Proves finiteness and holonomicity of skein modules for 3-manifolds.

Skein modules are the main objects of an algebraic topology based on knots (or position). In the same spirit as Leibniz we would call our approach "algebra situs." When looking at the panorama of skein modules we see, past the rolling hills of homologies and homotopies, distant mountains - the Kauffman bracket skein mo…

Apart from global topological problems an affine homogeneous space is locally described by its curvature, its torsion and a slightly less tangible object called its connection in a given base point. Using this description of the local geometry of an affine homogeneous space we construct an algebraic variety $\mathfrak{…

A new method to derive presentations of skein modules is developed. For the case of homotopy skein modules it will be shown how the topology of a 3-manifold is reflected in the structure of the module. The freeness problem for q-homotopy skein modules is solved, and a natural skein module related to linking numbers is …

In this paper, we show an isomorphism of homological knot invariants categorifying the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants for $\mathfrak{sl}_n$. Over the past decade, such invariants have been constructed in a variety of different ways, using matrix factorizations, category $\mathcal{O}$, affine Grassmannians, and diagramma…

Introduces admissible skein modules for non-semisimple categories.

Extended quantum state result for gl_n weight systems.

We introduce higher skein modules of links generalizing the Conway skein module. We show that these modules are closely connected to the HOMFLY polynomial.

Given a Heegaard splitting of a closed 3-manifold, the skein modules of the two handlebodies are modules over the skein algebra of their common boundary surface. The zeroth Hochschild homology of the skein algebra of a surface with coefficients in the tensor product of the skein modules of two handlebodies is interpret…

Researchers compute the Kauffman bracket skein module of a specific 3-manifold.

Correspondence found between Askey-Wilson polynomials and genus-two handlebody skein module.

New Bol operators found for supermanifolds with specific dimensions.

Quantum traces map skein algebras to Fock-Goncharov spaces.