Grigsby's categorified wrapping number conjecture for annular links

Let AA= S1×[0,1]S^1\times[0,1] be the annulus, let LA×IL\subset A\times I be an annular link, and let wrap(L)\mathrm{wrap}(L) be the minimal geometric intersection number between LL and a meridional disk in A×IA\times I. Let AKh(L)\mathrm{AKh}(L) denote the annular Khovanov homology of LL, equipped with its annular winding-number, or kk-, grading. Categorified Wrapping Number Conjecture. The annular Khovanov homology AKh(L)\mathrm{AKh}(L) is nontrivial in kk-grading wrap(L)\mathrm{wrap}(L). This conjecture seeks a categorified analogue of the wrapping-number conjecture in annular skein theory. The homology is known to be supported in kk-gradings whose absolute values are at most wrap(L)\mathrm{wrap}(L), but nontriviality at the extremal grading remains the conjectural assertion.

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Benjamin Daniels and Melissa Zhang, “On the Categorified Wrapping Number Conjecture”, arXiv:2501.02623 (2025).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2103.01269.

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