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Main Author: Spyropoulos, Dean
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09269
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contents The Jones-Wenzl projectors are particular elements of the Temperley-Lieb algebra essential to the construction of quantum 3-manifold invariants. As a first step toward categorifying quantum 3-manifold invariants, Cooper and Krushkal categorified these projectors. In another direction, Naisse and Putyra gave a categorification of the Temperley-Lieb algebra compatible with odd Khovanov homology, introducing new machinery called grading categories. We provide a generalization of Naisse and Putyra's work in the spirit of Bar-Natan's canopolies or Jones's planar algebras, replacing grading categories with grading multicategories. We use our setup to prove the existence and uniqueness of categorified Jones-Wenzl projectors in odd Khovanov homology. This result quickly implies the existence of a new, "odd" categorification of the colored Jones polynomial.
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spellingShingle Jones-Wenzl projectors and odd Khovanov homology
Spyropoulos, Dean
Geometric Topology
Quantum Algebra
The Jones-Wenzl projectors are particular elements of the Temperley-Lieb algebra essential to the construction of quantum 3-manifold invariants. As a first step toward categorifying quantum 3-manifold invariants, Cooper and Krushkal categorified these projectors. In another direction, Naisse and Putyra gave a categorification of the Temperley-Lieb algebra compatible with odd Khovanov homology, introducing new machinery called grading categories. We provide a generalization of Naisse and Putyra's work in the spirit of Bar-Natan's canopolies or Jones's planar algebras, replacing grading categories with grading multicategories. We use our setup to prove the existence and uniqueness of categorified Jones-Wenzl projectors in odd Khovanov homology. This result quickly implies the existence of a new, "odd" categorification of the colored Jones polynomial.
title Jones-Wenzl projectors and odd Khovanov homology
topic Geometric Topology
Quantum Algebra
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09269