Comments: 8 pp, 2 figs; We thank Tim Cochran for pointing out that Prop. 1 appeared in Thm. 4.1 of his "Non-trivial links and plats with trivial Gassner matrices," MATH PROC CAMBRIDGE (1996) prior to the work of Birman-Menasco that we cited in v2. We have revised the abstract and intro of our paper accordingly
Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure, Definition of sutured annular Khovanov homology in Section 2.1 has significant text overlap with arXiv:1212.2222; Version 2 incorporates referee comments. This is the version accepted for publication in Mathematical Research Letters
Subjects:Geometric Topology (math.GT); Quantum Algebra (math.QA); Representation Theory (math.RT)
Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures. Version 2 has a new, entirely combinatorial, proof that sutured annular Khovanov homology detects the trivial braid, involving a relationship between Plamenevskaya's invariant of transverse links and the Dehornoy order on the braid group
Subjects:Geometric Topology (math.GT); Quantum Algebra (math.QA); Representation Theory (math.RT)