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The Blanchet-Khovanov algebras

The Blanchet-Khovanov algebras

Blanchet introduced certain singular cobordisms to fix the functoriality of Khovanov homology.In this paper we introduce graded algebras consisting of such singular cobordisms à la Blanchet.As the main result we explicitly describe these algebras in algebraic terms using the combinatorics of arc diagrams.