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Colored HOMFLY polynomials from Chern-Simons theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-07-23 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We elaborate the Chern-Simons field theoretic method to obtain colored HOMFLY invariants of knots and links. Using multiplicity-free quantum 6j-symbols for U_q(sl_N), we present explicit evaluations of the HOMFLY invariants colored by symmetric representations for a variety of knots, two-component links and three-component links.

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@article{arxiv.1302.5144,
  title  = {Colored HOMFLY polynomials from Chern-Simons theory},
  author = {Satoshi Nawata and P. Ramadevi and Zodinmawia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.5144},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

40 pages, 23 figures, a Mathematica notebook linked on the right as an ancillary file; v2 typos corrected; v3 corrections in section 4.2 and cosmetic changes; v4 corrections in two-component links

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