Categorified invariants and the braid group
  We investigate two "categorified" braid conjugacy class invariants, one coming from Khovanov homology and the other from Heegaard Floer homology. We prove that each yields a solution to the word problem but not the conjugacy problem in the braid group. 
John A. Baldwin and J. Elisenda Grigsby
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