Hongjian’s talk
Title: Involutive Khovanov homology is interestingly trivial
Abstract: We define a version of involutive Khovanov homology using the flip symmetry on knot diagrams as an analog of involutive Heegaard Floer homology. By adapting techniques from Alishahi—Truong—Zhang, we are able to prove that it is “boring” in certain sense, which resolves a folklore conjecture on the triviality of the Viro flip map. It also leads to an interesting corollary for strongly invertible knots. This is joint work in progress with Daren Chen.