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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2011

    have created an entry Khovanov homology, so far containing only some references and a little paragraph on the recent advances in identifying the corresponding TQFT. I have also posted this to the nnCafé here, hoping that others feel inspired to work on expanding this entry

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2011
    • (edited Feb 23rd 2011)

    I added lots of links to the bibliography (doi, MR…). There was an earlier nnCafé post about a conference on categorification of the type which includes Khovanov’s work – categorification related to quantum groups, knots and links – the one in Glasgow http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/categorification_in_glasgow.html, the report on Kamnitzer’s work http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/04/kamnitzer_on_categorifying_tan.html, as well as link homology post http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/02/link_homology_in_paris.html which you may want to link in your intro text on the nnCafé. Edit: I added the links to nnCafé to Khovanov homology.

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2011
    • (edited Feb 23rd 2011)

    thanks, Zoran!!

    Important further aspects that are missing:

    • at least a rough account of the definition and some properties

    • at least a rough mention of the work by Bar-Natan and Lauda on categorified quantum groups and their relation to Khovanov homology.

    Myself, unfortunately I don’t have time right now. But maybe somebody reading this here does.

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2011

    Why do you think that newer work on categorification of quantum groups is closer to Khovanov’s homology than original work from 1990s ?

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2011

    Why do you think that I think that?

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2011

    Well, Lauda’s work on the subject is very recent. While recent work of many authors is gradually clarifying the true picture, the categorification of quantum groups was in bloom already 10+ years ago, pushed by e.g. Kazhdan, Igor Frenkel, Bernstein and others. Some of it is documented, some is not much published (like work of Kazhdan); by 2003 when I was leaving US it was rather frequent topic in quantum group/representation theory community; in 2004 I heard a strong talk of Stroppel about it in Warwick, she was pushing the program very enthusiastically (what continues now). I anticipate that you do have some insight why you consider also the young work of Lauda “important” missing aspect and you want to share the motivation with us before we invest time into it unmotivated…

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2011
    • (edited Feb 23rd 2011)

    I anticipate that you do have some insight why you consider also the young work of Lauda “important”

    Gee, Zoran, all I said is that I think we should list it. Don’t try to fight with me over things I didn’t say. If you have insights on Khovanov homology that you want to share, just add them to the entry.

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011
    • (edited Feb 24th 2011)

    I have no insights on Khovanov homology (frankly no much interest either), I was working on the entry just to help you. I do have some insights on the categorification of quantum groups, but do not know which of that work is directly relevant to Khovanov homology.

    Don’t try to fight with me over things I didn’t say.

    I do not understand why asking you for your insight for “Lauda’s work” (in 4 an 6) is “fight”. It was just a minor curiosity (which I mainly lost after 7). Edit: I really (and naturally) expect that if somebody labels something as an important further aspect (as in 3) that one will be happy to hear and answer to the interest why (s)he thinks so.

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011

    I added few random related references from Khovanov and from Bar-Natan.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011
    • (edited Feb 24th 2011)

    Hey Zoran, Lauda is a collaborator of the very Khovanov and from what i hear people say in the hallways, his work is being well recognized. That’s why I thought he needs to be cited in the entry on Khovanov homology. But that’s about all I know about it.

    If you have further insights that for some reason Lauda’s work should not be cited because it is far too little “important” as you suggest in 6, then please share your knowledge.

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011
    • (edited Feb 24th 2011)

    Thanks for clarifications.

    As I explained in detail in 6, as far as categorification of quantum groups is concerned the Lauda’s work is indeed very late. But I expected in 4 that there are arguments “that newer work on categorification of quantum groups is closer to Khovanov’s homology than original work from 1990s”. This is not in contradiction with what you are saying and is not suggesting that it is not important – enhancing existing subject by finding deep connections to other areas is important; I am suggesting that one of its merits is probably in getting closer to Khovanov’s work and was asking for insight in this direction; there may be more (e.g. in making the constructions more explicit). I daresay that quantum groups live per se and the depth of research there is not necessarily measured only by connections to fancier and more popular subjects like TQFT; in an entry on TQFT one should of course emphasise such aspects, with a reference that the subject was largely developed before.

    • CommentRowNumber12.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011

    All right, I guess we have clarified then whatever needed clarification.

    Phew, the comment #3 was posted when i was in a rush as a reminder because I didn’t (and don’t) have the time to look into all this more closely. My plan that it would save me time to post this reminder did not quite work out ,-)

    Okay, need to get back to work.

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011
    • (edited Feb 24th 2011)

    Sorry, it came that way. On the other hand, when writing to do list one can just say (neutral and short) “to do list” :) as a precaution :)

    By the way, in 2002 many experts in Lie theory somewhat expected Nakajima to get a Fields medal for his work on quantum groups and ALE spaces, extending earlier Lusztig’s work. For example, Armand Borel expected that. On the other hand I also heard the opinion, that it is still incomparable to the bulk of deep Lusztig’s work in Lie and representation theory, not only quantum groups, canonical basis and Kazhdan-Lusztig-Deodhar theory; but Lusztig was unfortunately never granted.

    • CommentRowNumber14.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011

    Okay, I see, my “important” caused all the toruble.

    No problem. Thanks for all your help! Maybe I shouldn’t open new entries when I don’t have enough time. On the other hand, precisely if I don’t have enough time do I feel the need to quickly note down some things in some entry.

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011

    You know, you are so nice, literate, willing to explain to people. So even in a hurry you write long sentences full of niceties like “This was nicely explained in ref 2 which took some ideas from ref 4 and build on ref 5”.

    But there may be soon another big step in quantum groups from topological point of view. I mean there is some unavailable work in progress from Gaitsgory and Lurie explaining the origin of quantum groups from the point of view of homotopy/higher category theory…I read some enticing abstract on this…

    • CommentRowNumber16.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011

    there is some unavailable work in progress from Gaitsgory and Lurie explaining the origin of quantum groups from the point of view of homotopy/higher category theory.

    This I would like to see! Do you have any further information?

    • CommentRowNumber17.
    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011

    I know that it is about corollaries of their unfinished work on from this talk by Lurie:

    Defining Algebraic Groups over the Sphere Spectrum I

    Let G be a compact Lie group. Then the complexification of G can be realized as the set of points of an algebraic group defined over the complex numbers. Better still, this algebraic group can be defined over the ring Z of integers. In the setting of derived algebraic geometry, one can ask whether this group is defined “over the sphere spectrum”. In these talks, I’ll explain the meaning of this question and describe how it can be addressed using recent joint work with Dennis Gaitsgory.

    and in

    • Jacob Lurie, Moduli spaces, chapter 10: “Deformations of Representation Categories”, moduli.pdf.

    I should note that Lurie already did some work with Gaitsgory on quantum groups, which appeared in (Lurie did not sign as an official coauthor at the end as explained inside)

    • Dennis Gaitsgory, Twisted Whittaker model and factorizable sheaves, Selecta Math. (N.S.) 13 (2008), no. 4, 617–659, arxiv/0705.4571
    • Dennis Gaitsgory, a talk on quantum geometric Langlands, with Lurie, handwrittem notes pdf

    where a version of the Kazhdan-Lusztig correspondence involving quantum group representations and certain categories of sheaves related to conformal field theory (and affine Lie algebras) is raised to a certain derived picture (eventually equivalence of certain stable (infinity,1)-categories). This is a spectacular further step after earlier work of Finkelberg, Bezrukavnikov and others. David-Ben Zvi commented on MO:

    One awesome idea is the use of the E 2E_2 perspective to explain WHY quantum groups relate to local systems on configuration spaces of points (Drinfeld-Kohno theorem and its generalizations) and in fact use it to prove the Kazhdan-Lusztig equivalence between quantum groups and affine Lie algebras.

    He also quotes that the Lurie’s talk on Koszul duality is relevant (pdf). I guess part of these last things is now in Higher Algebra. Cf. also Carnahan’s comment at MO (and this one) relating the Drinfeld double in the light of Lurie-Gaitsgory work.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2011

    That’s great, thanks!

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    • CommentTimeMar 15th 2023

    added these pointers:

    diff, v25, current

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    • CommentTimeMar 15th 2023
    • (edited Mar 15th 2023)

    added these poitners:

    diff, v26, current

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2023

    added pointer to:

    diff, v27, current

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 6th 2023
    • (edited May 6th 2023)

    added more of the original references on the homology of the cobordism category of “foams”:

    diff, v30, current