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Rotors in Khovanov Homology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Joseph MacColl
Joseph MacColl*
Affiliation:
University of Glagsow, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Glasgow, UK e-mail: 1101739m@student.gla.ac.uk
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Abstract

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Anstee, Przytycki, and Rolfsen introduced the idea of rotants, pairs of links related by a generalised form of link mutation. We exhibit infinitely many pairs of rotants that can be distinguished by Khovanov homology, but not by the Jones polynomial.

Keywords

57M2727M25geometric topologyknot theoryrotantskhovanov homologyjones polynomial

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Type
Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , 01 March 2016 , pp. 159 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2016

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