Cohomological dimension conjecture for the diagrammatic Clifford category

Let d535ad535a and d535bd535b be objects of the diagrammatic category d538d538. Write d535ad53fd535ad53f and d535bd53fd535bd53f for the corresponding dividing sets in the contact category, and call a dividing set d535bd53fd535bd53f stackable over d535ad53fd535ad53f when the corresponding contact-category morphism space is nonzero.

Cohomological dimension conjecture. For d535a,d535bE(CL)d535a,d535b\in\mathcal{E}(\mathcal{CL}),

dimF2H(HomCL(a,b))={1if b is stackable over a,0otherwise.\operatorname{dim}_{\mathbb{F}_2}H^*(\operatorname{Hom}_{\mathcal{CL}}(\mathbf{a},\mathbf{b}))=\begin{cases}1&\text{if }\overline{\mathbf{b}}\text{ is stackable over }\overline{\mathbf{a}},\\0&\text{otherwise.}\end{cases}

The conjecture predicts that the cohomology of every morphism complex in the diagrammatic category has dimension at most one, with nonvanishing exactly when the corresponding contact structures are related by a nonzero morphism. It is motivated by the uniqueness theorem for tight contact structures on the three-dimensional ball, but the authors state that the required bases and cohomology computations are not known.

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Yin Tian, “A diagrammatic categorification of a Clifford algebra”, arXiv:1309.6049 (2013).

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