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Link homology and categorification

@inproceedings{Khovanov2006LinkHA,
  title={Link homology and categorification},
  author={Mikhail Khovanov},
  year={2006}
}
This is a short survey of algebro-combinatorial link homology theories which have the Jones polynomial and other link polynomials as their Euler characteristics. 
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