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Cuts and penalties: comment on "The clustering of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and their sources"
In a series of papers we have found statistically significant correlations
between arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and BL Lacertae
objects. Recently, our calculations were partly repeated by Evans, Ferrer and
Sarkar with different conclusions. We demonstrate that the criticism of Evans,
Ferrer and Sarkar is incorrect. We also present the details of our method.Comment: Replaced with version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
An sl_n stable homotopy type for matched diagrams
There exists a simplified Bar-Natan Khovanov complex for open 2-braids. The
Khovanov cohomology of a knot diagram made by gluing tangles of this type is
therefore often amenable to calculation. We lift this idea to the level of the
Lipshitz-Sarkar stable homotopy type and use it to make new computations.
Similarly, there exists a simplified Khovanov-Rozansky sl_n complex for open
2-braids with oppositely oriented strands and an even number of crossings.
Diagrams made by gluing tangles of this type are called matched diagrams, and
knots admitting matched diagrams are called bipartite knots. To a pair
consisting of a matched diagram and a choice of integer n >= 2, we associate a
stable homotopy type. In the case n = 2 this agrees with the Lipshitz-Sarkar
stable homotopy type of the underlying knot. In the case n >= 3 the cohomology
of the stable homotopy type agrees with the sl_n Khovanov-Rozansky cohomology
of the underlying knot.
We make some consistency checks of this sl_n stable homotopy type and show
that it exhibits interesting behaviour. For example we find a CP^2 in the sl_3
type for some diagram, and show that the sl_4 type can be interesting for a
diagram for which the Lipshitz-Sarkar type is a wedge of Moore spaces.Comment: 62 pages, color figure
‘Genetic Coding’ Reconsidered : An Analysis of Actual Usage
I thank George Pandarakalam for research assistance; Hans-Jörg Rheinberger for hosting my stay at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin; and Sahotra Sarkar and referees of this journal for offering detailed comments. Funded by the Wellcome Trust (WT098764MA).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
A combinatorial description of the Heegaard Floer contact invariant
In this short note, we observe that the Heegaard Floer contact invariant is
combinatorial by applying the algorithm of Sarkar--Wang to the description of
the contact invariant due to Honda--Kazez--Matic. We include an example of this
combinatorial calculation.Comment: 6 page
A Simplification of Combinatorial Link Floer Homology
We define a new combinatorial complex computing the hat version of link Floer
homology over Z/2Z, which turns out to be significantly smaller than the
Manolescu-Ozsvath-Sarkar one.Comment: 20 pages with figures, final version printed in JKTR, v.3 of
Oberwolfach Proceeding
Localization in Khovanov homology
We construct equivariant Khovanov spectra for periodic links, using the
Burnside functor construction introduced by Lawson, Lipshitz, and Sarkar. By
identifying the fixed-point sets, we obtain rank inequalities for odd and even
Khovanov homologies, and their annular filtrations, for prime-periodic links in
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