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Stabilization of the Khovanov Homotopy Type of Torus Links

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Mike Willis (Univ. of Virginia)
Geometry/Topology Seminar

Both the Jones polynomial and its categorification, the Khovanov homology, are known to stabilize for torus links T(n,m) as m goes to infinity. In recent work, Robert Lipshitz and Sucharit Sarkar constructed the Khovanov homotopy type of a link, a spectrum whose reduced cohomology recovers the Khovanov homology of the link. In this talk I will discuss stability of these homotopy types for torus links as m goes to infinity. If time permits, I will also discuss more recent work regarding a tail as n to goes to infinity (similar to the tail of the colored Jones polynomial), as well as a definition for a colored Khovanov homotopy type for links.

Contact: Monique Brown