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Classification of links with Khovanov homology of minimal rank

  • Yi Xie

    Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China

  • Boyu Zhang

    Department of Mathematics,University of Maryland at College Park,College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Abstract

If is an oriented link with components, then the rank of its Khovanov homology is at least . We classify all links that achieve this lower bound and show that such links can be obtained by iterated connected sums and disjoint unions of Hopf links and unknots. This gives a positive answer to a question asked by Batson and Seed (2015).

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Yi Xie, Boyu Zhang, Classification of links with Khovanov homology of minimal rank. J. Eur. Math. Soc. (2023), published online first

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1380