A perturbation of the geometric spectral sequence in Khovanov homology

Sucharit Sarkar, Cotton Seed, Zoltan Szabo

Published 2014-10-10Version 1

We study the relationship between Bar-Natan's perturbation in Khovanov homology and Szabo's geometric spectral sequence, and construct a link invariant that generalizes both into a common theory. We study a few properties of the new invariant, and introduce a family of s-invariants from the new theory in the same spirit as Rasmussen's s-invariant.