{"title":"The Khovanov homology of infinite braids","authors":"Gabriel Islambouli, Michael Willis","doi":"10.4171/QT/114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/QT/114","url":null,"abstract":"We show that the limiting Khovanov chain complex of any infinite positive braid categorifies the Jones-Wenzl projector. This result extends Lev Rozansky's categorification of the Jones-Wenzl projectors using the limiting complex of infinite torus braids. We also show a similar result for the limiting Lipshitz-Sarkar-Khovanov homotopy types of the closures of such braids. Extensions to more general infinite braids are also considered.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75632556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The classification of $3^n$ subfactors and related fusion categories","authors":"Masaki Izumi","doi":"10.4171/QT/113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/QT/113","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate a (potentially infinite) series of subfactors, called $3^n$ subfactors, including $A_4$, $A_7$, and the Haagerup subfactor as the first three members corresponding to $n=1,2,3$. Generalizing our previous work for odd $n$, we further develop a Cuntz algebra method to construct $3^n$ subfactors and show that the classification of the $3^n$ subfactors and related fusion categories is reduced to explicit polynomial equations under a mild assumption, which automatically holds for odd $n$.In particular, our method with $n=4$ gives a uniform construction of 4 finite depth subfactors, up to dual,without intermediate subfactors of index $3+sqrt{5}$. It also provides a key step for a new construction of the Asaeda-Haagerup subfactor due to Grossman, Snyder, and the author.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"2012 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86387348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Triangular decomposition of skein algebras","authors":"Thang T. Q. Lê","doi":"10.4171/QT/115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/QT/115","url":null,"abstract":"By introducing a finer version of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra, we show how to decompose the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of a surface into elementary blocks corresponding to the triangles in an ideal triangulation of the surface. The new skein algebra of an ideal triangle has a simple presentation. This gives an easy proof of the existence of the quantum trace map of Bonahon and Wong. We also explain the relation between our skein algebra and the one defined by Muller, and use it to show that the quantum trace map can be extended to the Muller skein algebra.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85161359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Homflypt polynomial and the oriented Thompson group","authors":"Valeriano Aiello, R. Conti, V. Jones","doi":"10.4171/QT/112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/QT/112","url":null,"abstract":"We show how to construct unitary representations of the oriented Thompson group $vec{F}$ from oriented link invariants. In particular we show that the suitably normalised HOMFLYPT polynomial defines a positive definite function of $vec{F}$.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81278100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual bases in Temperley–Lieb algebras, quantum groups, and a question of Jones","authors":"Michael Brannan, B. Collins","doi":"10.4171/QT/118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/QT/118","url":null,"abstract":"We derive a Laurent series expansion for the structure coefficients appearing in the dual basis corresponding to the Kauffman diagram basis of the Temperley-Lieb algebra $text{TL}_k(d)$, converging for all complex loop parameters $d$ with $|d| > 2cosbig(frac{pi}{k+1}big)$. In particular, this yields a new formula for the structure coefficients of the Jones-Wenzl projection in $text{TL}_k(d)$. The coefficients appearing in each Laurent expansion are shown to have a natural combinatorial interpretation in terms of a certain graph structure we place on non-crossing pairings, and these coefficients turn out to have the remarkable property that they either always positive integers or always negative integers. As an application, we answer affirmatively a question of Vaughan Jones, asking whether every Temperley-Lieb diagram appears with non-zero coefficient in the expansion of each dual basis element in $text{TL}_k(d)$ (when $d in mathbb R backslash [-2cosbig(frac{pi}{k+1}big),2cosbig(frac{pi}{k+1}big)]$). Specializing to Jones-Wenzl projections, this result gives a new proof of a result of Ocneanu, stating that every Temperley-Lieb diagram appears with non-zero coefficient in a Jones-Wenzl projection. Our methods establish a connection with the Weingarten calculus on free quantum groups, and yield as a byproduct improved asymptotics for the free orthogonal Weingarten function.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83015654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Twisting, mutation and knot Floer homology","authors":"Peter Lambert-Cole","doi":"10.4171/QT/119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/QT/119","url":null,"abstract":"Let $mathcal{L}$ be a knot with a fixed positive crossing and $mathcal{L}_n$ the link obtained by replacing this crossing with $n$ positive twists. We prove that the knot Floer homology $widehat{text{HFK}}(mathcal{L}_n)$ `stabilizes' as $n$ goes to infinity. This categorifies a similar stabilization phenomenon of the Alexander polynomial. As an application, we construct an infinite family of prime, positive mutant knots with isomorphic bigraded knot Floer homology groups. Moreover, given any pair of positive mutants, we describe how to derive a corresponding infinite family positive mutants with isomorphic bigraded $widehat{text{HFK}}$ groups, Seifert genera, and concordance invariant $tau$.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84736980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification of Thurston relation subfactor planar algebras","authors":"Corey Jones, Zhengwei Liu, Yunxiang Ren","doi":"10.4171/qt/126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/qt/126","url":null,"abstract":"Bisch and Jones suggested the skein theoretic classification of planar algebras and investigated the ones generated by 2-boxes with the second author. In this paper, we consider 3-box generators and classify subfactor planar algebras generated by a non-trivial 3-box satisfying a relation proposed by Thurston. The subfactor planar algebras in the classification are either $E^6$ or the ones from representations of quantum $SU(N)$. We introduce a new method to determine positivity of planar algebras and new techniques to reduce the complexity of computations.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86797957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Categorification of quantum symmetric pairs I","authors":"Huanchen Bao, P. Shan, Weiqiang Wang, Ben Webster","doi":"10.4171/QT/117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/QT/117","url":null,"abstract":"We categorify a coideal subalgebra of the quantum group of $mathfrak{sl}_{2r+1}$ by introducing a $2$-category a la Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier, and show that self-dual indecomposable $1$-morphisms categorify the canonical basis of this algebra. This allows us to define a categorical action of this coideal algebra on the categories of modules over cohomology rings of partial flag varieties and on the BGG category $mathcal{O}$ of type B/C.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83211314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the asymptotic expansion of the Kashaev invariant of the $5_2$ knot","authors":"T. Ohtsuki","doi":"10.4171/QT/83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/QT/83","url":null,"abstract":"We give a presentation of the asymptotic expansion of the Kashaev invariant of the 52 knot. As the volume conjecture states, the leading term of the expansion presents the hyperbolic volume and the Chern-Simons invariant of the complement of the 52 knot. Further, we obtain a method to compute the full Poincare asymptotics to all orders of the Kashaev invariant of the 52 knot.","PeriodicalId":51331,"journal":{"name":"Quantum Topology","volume":"66 1","pages":"669-735"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86420733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}