The Knight Move Conjecture for Khovanov homology

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Let KK be a knot. Its Khovanov homology over Q\mathbb{Q} is a bigraded vector space, and write ss for Rasmussen's invariant. A pawn move piece is

Q{0,s−1}⊕Q{0,s+1},\mathbb{Q}\{0,s-1\}\oplus\mathbb{Q}\{0,s+1\},

and a knight move piece is

Q{i,j}⊕Q{i+1,j+4},\mathbb{Q}\{i,j\}\oplus\mathbb{Q}\{i+1,j+4\},

for i,j∈Zi,j\in\mathbb{Z}. Knight Move Conjecture. For every knot KK, its Khovanov homology over Q\mathbb{Q} 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 22, but the paper presents a counterexample: in general the Lee spectral sequence can have a nontrivial differential of bidegree (1,8)(1,8).

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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