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Matrix factorizations and link homology II

Mikhail Khovanov, Lev Rozansky

math.QAarXiv:math/0505056

Abstract

To a presentation of an oriented link as the closure of a braid we assign a complex of bigraded vector spaces. The Euler characteristic of this complex (and of its triply-graded cohomology groups) is the HOMFLYPT polynomial of the link. We show that the dimension of each cohomology group is a link invariant.

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