A cohomology theory for colored tangles

Carmen Caprau

Banach Center Publications (2014)

  • Volume: 100, Issue: 1, page 13-25
  • ISSN: 0137-6934

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We employ the sl(2) foam cohomology to define a cohomology theory for oriented framed tangles whose components are labeled by irreducible representations of U q ( s l ( 2 ) ) . We show that the corresponding colored invariants of tangles can be assembled into invariants of bigger tangles. For the case of knots and links, the corresponding theory is a categorification of the colored Jones polynomial, and provides a tool for efficient computations of the resulting colored invariant of knots and links. Our theory is defined over the Gaussian integers ℤ[i] (and more generally over ℤ[i][a,h], where a,h are formal parameters), and enhances the existing categorifications of the colored Jones polynomial.

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Carmen Caprau. "A cohomology theory for colored tangles." Banach Center Publications 100.1 (2014): 13-25. <http://eudml.org/doc/282439>.

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