Functorial invariance of singular-category tangle presentations

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Let ∩i,n\cap_{i,n} and ∪i,n\cup_{i,n} be the cap and cup functors between the relevant singular categories, and let Ri,nR_{i,n} be the cone of the adjointness morphism εi∘RΓi⟶Id\varepsilon_i\circ\mathcal R\Gamma_i\longrightarrow Id. For a presentation α\alpha of a tangle as a composition of elementary tangles, let f(α)f(\alpha) be the corresponding composition of these functors. Singular tangle-invariance conjecture. If α\alpha and β\beta are two presentations of the same tangle tt, then f(α)f(\alpha) and f(β)f(\beta) should be isomorphic, up to shifts in the derived category. This is intended to produce functorial invariants of links and tangles; no proof is supplied in the stated passage.

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Joseph Bernstein, Igor Frenkel and Mikhail Khovanov, “A categorification of the Temperley-Lieb algebra and Schur quotients of U(sl(2)) via projective and Zuckerman functors”, arXiv:math/0002087 (2000).

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