Chewing the Khovanov homology of tangles
Volume 184 / 2004
Fundamenta Mathematicae 184 (2004), 103-112
MSC: 57M25, 57M27.
DOI: 10.4064/fm184-0-8
Abstract
We present an elementary description of Khovanov's homology of tangles [K2], in the spirit of Viro's paper [V]. The formulation here is over the polynomial ring $\mathbb{Z}[c]$, unlike [K2] where the theory was presented over the integers only.