Khovanov homology is an unknot-detector
We prove that a knot is the unknot if and only if its reduced Khovanov cohomology has rank 1. The proof has two steps. We show first that there is a spectral sequence beginning with the reduced Khovanov cohomology and abutting to a knot homology defined using singular instantons. We then show that t...
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Springer-Verlag,
2012-04-27T22:04:24Z.
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