The Knight Move Conjecture for Khovanov homology
Let be a knot. Its Khovanov homology over is a bigraded vector space, and write for Rasmussen's invariant. A pawn move piece is
and a knight move piece is
for . Knight Move Conjecture. For every knot , its Khovanov homology over is the direct sum of one pawn move piece and several knight move pieces. This conjecture holds for knots whose Lee spectral sequence degenerates after the first page, including alternating, quasi-alternating, and knots with unknotting number at most , but the paper presents a counterexample: in general the Lee spectral sequence can have a nontrivial differential of bidegree .
References
Primary source
Ciprian Manolescu and Marco Marengon, “The Knight Move Conjecture is false”, arXiv:1809.09769 (2018).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1710.07875.
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