A categorification of the Beilinson-Lusztig-MacPherson form of the quantum
sl(2) was constructed in the paper arXiv:0803.3652 by the second author. Here
we enhance the graphical calculus introduced and developed in that paper to
include two-morphisms between divided powers one-morphisms and their
compositions. We obtain explicit diagrammatical formulas for the decomposition
of products of divided powers one-morphisms as direct sums of indecomposable
one-morphisms; the latter are in a bijection with the Lusztig canonical basis
elements. These formulas have integral coefficients and imply that one of the
main results of Lauda's paper---identification of the Grothendieck ring of his
2-category with the idempotented quantum sl(2)---also holds when the 2-category
is defined over the ring of integers rather than over a field.Comment: 72 pages, LaTeX2e with xypic and pstricks macro
It is known that knot homologies admit a physical description as spaces of open BPS states. We study operators and algebras acting on these spaces. This leads to a very rich story, which involves wall crossing phenomena, algebras of closed BPS states acting on spaces of open BPS states, and deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models.One important application to knot homologies is the existence of "colored differentials" that relate homological invariants of knots colored by different representations. Based on this structure, we formulate a list of properties of the colored HOMFLY homology that categorifies the colored HOMFLY polynomial. By calculating the colored HOMFLY homology for symmetric and anti-symmetric representations, we find a remarkable "mirror symmetry" between these triply-graded theories.
We study singularities of algebraic curves associated with 3d N = 2 theories that have at least one global flavor symmetry. Of particular interest is a class of theories T K labeled by knots, whose partition functions package Poincaré polynomials of the S r -colored HOMFLY homologies. We derive the defining equation, called the super-A-polynomial, for algebraic curves associated with many new examples of 3d N = 2 theories T K and study its singularity structure. In particular, we catalog general types of singularities that presumably exist for all knots and propose their physical interpretation. A computation of super-A-polynomials is based on a derivation of corresponding superpolynomials, which is interesting in its own right and relies solely on a structure of differentials in S r -colored HOMFLY homologies.
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