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TRIPLY-GRADED LINK HOMOLOGY AND HOCHSCHILD HOMOLOGY OF SOERGEL BIMODULES

MIKHAIL KHOVANOV

Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129167X07004400Cited by:100 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We consider a class of bimodules over polynomial algebras which were originally introduced by Soergel in relation to the Kazhdan–Lusztig theory, and which describe a direct summand of the category of Harish–Chandra modules for sl(n). Rouquier used Soergel bimodules to construct a braid group action on the homotopy category of complexes of modules over a polynomial algebra. We apply Hochschild homology to Rouquier's complexes and produce triply-graded homology groups associated to a braid. These groups turn out to be isomorphic to the groups previously defined by Lev Rozansky and the author, which depend, up to isomorphism and overall shift, only on the closure of the braid. Consequently, our construction produces a homology theory for links.

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AMSC: 57M25, 18G60

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