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arxiv: 1607.04222 · v1 · submitted 2016-07-14 · ✦ hep-th · math-ph· math.MP

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Comments On The Two-Dimensional Landau-Ginzburg Approach To Link Homology

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We describe rules for computing a homology theory of knots and links in $\mathbb{R}^3$. It is derived from the theory of framed BPS states bound to domain walls separating two-dimensional Landau-Ginzburg models with (2,2) supersymmetry. We illustrate the rules with some sample computations, obtaining results consistent with Khovanov homology. We show that of the two Landau-Ginzburg models discussed in this context by Gaiotto and Witten one, (the so-called Yang-Yang-Landau-Ginzburg model) does not lead to topological invariants of links while the other, based on a model with target space equal to the universal cover of the moduli space of $SU(2)$ magnetic monopoles, will indeed produce a topologically invariant theory of knots and links.

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