Behavior of knot invariants under genus 2 mutation.
Torsion of Khovanov homology
Khovanov homology is a recently introduced invariant of oriented links in ℝ³. It categorifies the Jones polynomial in the sense that the (graded) Euler characteristic of Khovanov homology is a version of the Jones polynomial for links. In this paper we study torsion of Khovanov homology. Based on our calculations, we formulate several conjectures about the torsion and prove weaker versions of the first two of them. In particular, we prove that all non-split alternating links have their integer Khovanov...
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