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HOMFLY homology for oriented tangles

William Ballinger·Luke Conners
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We introduce an extension of Khovanov and Rozansky's categorification of the HOMFLY polynomial to arbitrary oriented tangles. Unlike previous such extensions, ours is invariant under the full suite of oriented Reidemeister moves, including the "misoriented" Reidemeister IIb. For oriented links $\mathcal{L}$, our construction recovers Khovanov and Rozansky's construction while removing the preliminary step of presenting $\mathcal{L}$ as a braid closure.

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William Ballinger, Luke Conners. 2026-11-06. HOMFLY homology for oriented tangles. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09367

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