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20122026
most citedKhovanov homology is a skew Howe 2-representation of categorified quantum sl(m)

38 citations · 108 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

math.QA2026

q-Rationals, link invariants and webs

Perrine Jouteur, Hoel Queffelec

We investigate the role of q-rationals in the context of link invariants. This leads us to introduce and study web categories that q-deform Deligne's categories.

math.QA2025

Extriangulated structures from stability conditions and application to braid representations

Hoel Queffelec, Anne-Laure Thiel, Emmanuel Wagner

We use the notion of Bridgeland stability condition and its associated metric to endow triangulated categories with extriangulated structures and study their extriangulated Grothen…

cs.CG2025

A fast algorithm for the Hecke representation of the braid group, and applications to the computation of the HOMFLY-PT polynomial and the search for interesting braids

Clément Maria, Hoel Queffelec

Knot theory is an active field of mathematics, in which combinatorial and computational methods play an important role. One side of computational knot theory, that has gained inter…

math.RT2024

Some remarks about the faithfulness of the Burau representation of Artin--Tits groups

Asilata Bapat, Hoel Queffelec

We discuss the extension of the faithfulness question for the Burau representation of braid groups to the case of Artin--Tits groups. We prove that the Burau representation is not…

math.GT2024

Reidemeister's theorem using transversality

Hoel Queffelec

We recover Reidemeister's theorem using smooth functions and transversality.

math.RT2024

Khovanov-Seidel braid representation

Hoel Queffelec

These are lecture notes from a lecture series given at CIRM in the Fall 2023. They give a down-to-earth introduction to Khovanov and Seidel's categorical representation of Artin-Ti…

math.QA2022★ 1 cited

Gl2 Foam Functoriality and Skein Positivity

Hoel Queffelec

We prove full functoriality of Khovanov homology for tangled framed gl2 webs. We use this functoriality result to prove a strong positivity result for (orientable) surface skein al…

math.GT2022

Movie moves for framed foams from multijet transversality

Hoel Queffelec, Kevin Walker

We use multijet transversality techniques to give a presentation by generators and relations of the categories of framed tangled webs and foams.

math.QA2021

Polynomial link invariants and quantum algebras

Hoel Queffelec

The definition of the Jones polynomial in the 80's gave rise to a large family of so-called quantum link invariants, based on quantum groups. These quantum invariants are all contr…

math.QA2018

Khovanov homology and categorification of skein modules

Hoel Queffelec, Paul Wedrich

For every oriented surface of finite type, we construct a functorial Khovanov homology for links in a thickening of the surface, which takes values in a categorification of the cor…

math.RT2018★ 5 cited

Extremal weight projectors II

Hoel Queffelec, Paul Wedrich

In previous work, we have constructed diagrammatic idempotents in an affine extension of the Temperley-Lieb category, which describe extremal weight projectors for sl(2), and which…

math.GT2018★ 16 cited

Annular Evaluation and Link Homology

Hoel Queffelec, David E. V. Rose, Antonio Sartori

We use categorical annular evaluation to give a uniform construction of both and HOMFLYPT Khovanov-Rozansky link homology, as well as annular versions of these th…

math.QA2017★ 1 cited

Braid groups of type ADE, Garside monoids, and the categorified root lattice

Anthony M. Licata, Hoel Queffelec

We study Artin-Tits braid groups of type ADE via the action of on the homotopy category of graded projective zigzag modules (which categ…

math.RT2017

Extremal weight projectors

Hoel Queffelec, Paul Wedrich

We introduce a quotient of the affine Temperley-Lieb category that encodes all weight-preserving linear maps between finite-dimensional sl(2)-representations. We study the diagramm…

math.RT2017★ 2 cited

An equivalence between truncations of categorified quantum groups and Heisenberg categories

Hoel Queffelec, Alistair Savage, Oded Yacobi

We introduce a simple diagrammatic 2-category that categorifies the image of the Fock space representation of the Heisenberg algebra and the basic representation of $…

math.QA2015

Sutured annular Khovanov-Rozansky homology

Hoel Queffelec, David E. V. Rose

We introduce an sl(n) homology theory for knots and links in the thickened annulus. To do so, we first give a fresh perspective on sutured annular Khovanov homology, showing that i…

math.QA2015★ 5 cited

A note on the gl(m|n) link invariants and the HOMFLY-PT polynomial

Hoel Queffelec, Antonio Sartori

We present a short and unified representation-theoretical treatment of type A link invariants (that is, the HOMFLY-PT polynomials, the Jones polynomial, the Alexander polynomial an…

math.RT2015

Mixed quantum skew Howe duality and link invariants of type A

Hoel Queffelec, Antonio Sartori

We define a ribbon category , depending on a parameter , which encompasses Cautis, Kamnitzer and Morrison's spider category, and describes for the monoid…

math.QA2014

Homfly-Pt and Alexander polynomials from a doubled Schur algebra

Hoel Queffelec, Antonio Sartori

We define a generalization of the idempotented Schur algebra which gives a unified setting for a quantum group presentation of the Homfly-Pt polynomial, together with its specializ…

math.QA2014★ 30 cited

The foam 2-category: a combinatorial formulation of Khovanov-Rozansky homology via categorical skew Howe duality

Hoel Queffelec, David E. V. Rose

We give a purely combinatorial construction of colored link homology. The invariant takes values in a 2-category where 2-morphisms are given by foams, singular co…

math.GT2014★ 1 cited

Chebyshev polynomials and the Frohman-Gelca formula

Hoel Queffelec, Heather M. Russell

Using Chebyshev polynomials, C. Frohman and R. Gelca introduce a basis of the Kauffman bracket skein module of the torus. This basis is especially useful because the Jones-Kauffman…

math.QA2013★ 9 cited

Skein Modules from Skew Howe Duality and Affine Extensions

Hoel Queffelec

We show that we can release the rigidity of the skew Howe duality process for knot invariants by rescaling the quantum Weyl group action, and recover skein modul…

math.QA2012★ 38 cited

Khovanov homology is a skew Howe 2-representation of categorified quantum sl(m)

Aaron D. Lauda, Hoel Queffelec, David E. V. Rose

We show that Khovanov homology (and its sl(3) variant) can be understood in the context of higher representation theory. Specifically, we show that the combinatorially defined foam…