A Jones polynomial for braid-like isotopies of oriented links and its categorification

Audoux, Benjamin; Fiedler, Thomas

doi:10.2140/agt.2005.5.1535

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A Jones polynomial for braid-like isotopies of oriented links and its categorification

Benjamin Audoux and Thomas Fiedler

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 5 (2005) 1535–1553

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2005.5.1535

arXiv: math.GT/0503080

Abstract

A braid-like isotopy for links in 3–space is an isotopy which uses only those Reidemeister moves which occur in isotopies of braids. We define a refined Jones polynomial and its corresponding Khovanov homology which are, in general, only invariant under braid-like isotopies.

Keywords

braid-like isotopies, Jones polynomials, Khovanov homologies

Mathematical Subject Classification 2000

Primary: 57M27

Secondary: 20F36

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Received: 9 March 2005

Revised: 20 October 2005

Accepted: 24 October 2005

Published: 16 November 2005

Authors

Benjamin Audoux
Laboratoire E.Picard Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse France

Thomas Fiedler
Laboratoire E.Picard Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse France

Volume 5, issue 4 (2005)