𝔤𝔩n-webs, categorification and Khovanov–Rozansky homologies

In this paper, we define an explicit basis for the [Formula: see text]-web algebra [Formula: see text] (the [Formula: see text] generalization of Khovanov’s arc algebra) using categorified [Formula: see text]-skew Howe duality. Our construction is a [Formula: see text]-web version of Hu–Mathas’ graded cellular basis and has two major applications: it gives rise to an explicit isomorphism between a certain idempotent truncation of a thick calculus cyclotomic KLR algebra and [Formula: see text], and it gives an explicit graded cellular basis of the [Formula: see text]-hom space between two [Formula: see text]-webs. We use this to give a (in principle) computable version of colored Khovanov–Rozansky [Formula: see text]-link homology, obtained from a complex defined purely combinatorially via the (thick cyclotomic) KLR algebra and needs only [Formula: see text].

Categorifying the tensor product of the Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystal B1,1 and a fundamental crystal

International audience We use Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier (KLR) algebras to categorify a crystal isomorphism between a funda-mental crystal and the tensor product of a Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystal and another fundamental crystal, all in affine type. The nodes of the Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystal correspond to a family of “trivial” modules. The nodes of the fun-damental crystal correspond to simple modules of the corresponding cyclotomic KLR algebra. The crystal operators correspond to socle of restriction and behave compatibly with the rule for tensor product of crystal graphs.