Proposition 4.15. The Khovanov–Rozansky homologies are lax symmetric monoidal functors.
Proof. Let and and write for the resulting split disjoint union in . We can find a diffeomorphism such that not only is generic and blackboard-framed, but also the -projections of the and components of are contained in disjoint disks in . Then, monoidality on the chain level is manifest in the definition of , and we get
where the map in the second line comes from the Künneth theorem (this is guaranteed to be an isomorphism when working with field coefficients). The compatibility on the level of morphisms is verified similarly. ∎
Original source: arXiv:1907.12194v5