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Five lectures on Khovanov homology

Paul Turner

Paul Turner

Section de Mathématiques, Université de Genève, 2-4 Rue du Lièvre, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland

E-mail Address: prt.maths@gmail.com

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Abstract

These five lectures — written for a summer school in 2006 — provide an introduction to Khovanov homology covering the basic definitions, important properties, a number of variants and some applications. At the end of each lecture the reader is referred to the relevant literature for further reading.

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AMSC: 57M25, 57M27

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