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Susanna Terron

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Khovanov monodromy groups via motions

For any link, we define a monodromy map from the motion group of the link to the group of automorphisms of the link's Khovanov homology. The image of this map is the \emph{unoriented monodromy group} of the link. This map allows us to convert results concerning motion groups of links into ones about their Khovanov monodromy. In particular, we use a characterisation of the motion groups of split links to write their unoriented monodromy groups as an explicit semidirect product in terms of their unsplit pieces. We give some demonstrative examples, computing the unoriented monodromy groups of unlinks, Hopf links, and split links composed of pieces thereof.

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Constructing Thompson representatives via pointed links

We extend Jones' construction to obtain a surjective map from the Brown-Thompson group $F_3$ to the set of pointed links up to pointed isotopy. We then introduce an operation on $F_3$, and use it to define a new monoid $(F_3, \diamond)$, called the central monoid. Using the extended version of Jones' construction, we obtain a surjective monoid homomorphism from the central monoid to the monoid of pointed links with connected sum. This allows us to introduce a standard form for connected sum representatives in $F_3$, and we extend this construction to a certain family of links by defining disjoint union and linking moves on $F_3$.

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