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The Danish National Research Foundation:
Network in Mathematical Physics and Stochastics



Funded by The Danish National Research Foundation
Geometric Mathematical Physics Seminar
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, at 16:15 in Aud.D3
Ivan Smith
University of Cambridge
Knots and the adjoint quotient

Abstract
I will describe joint work with Paul Seidel which defines an invariant of oriented links in the three-sphere by combining ideas from the algebraic geometry of Lie algebras with Lagrangian Floer homology. We conjecture that the invariant is a geometric model for Mikhail Khovanov's combinatorially defined homology groups.

Contact person:Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen.