Khovanov homology

English

Etymology

Named after Mikhail Khovanov, who developed it in the late 1990s.

Noun

Khovanov homology

  1. (mathematics) An oriented link invariant that arises as the homology of a chain complex. It may be regarded as a categorification of the Jones polynomial.
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