Khovanov's homology for tangles and cobordisms

Geometry and Topology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2005, Pages 1443-1499

  Bar Natan, Dror ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

2 knots; Canopoly; Categorification; Cobordism; Euler characteristic; Jones polynomial; Kauffman bracket; Khovanov; Knot invariants; Movie moves; Planar algebra; Skein modules; Tangles; Trace groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144488341     PISSN: 14653060     EISSN: 13640380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/gt.2005.9.1443     Document Type: Article

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