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Differential expansion and rectangular HOMFLY for the figure eight knot

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-10-03 v3 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

Differential expansion (DE) for a Wilson loop average in representation RR is built to respect degenerations of representations for small groups. At the same time it behaves nicely under some changes of the loop, e.g. of some knots in the case of 3d3d Chern-Simons theory. Especially simple is the relation between the DE for the trefoil 313_1 and for the figure eight knot 414_1. Since arbitrary colored HOMFLY for the trefoil are known from the Rosso-Jones formula, it is therefore enough to find their DE in order to make a conjecture for the figure eight. We fulfil this program for all rectangular representation R=[rs]R=[r^s], i.e. make a plausible conjecture for the rectangularly colored HOMFLY of the figure eight knot, which generalizes the old result for totally symmetric and antisymmetric representations.

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@article{arxiv.1605.09728,
  title  = {Differential expansion and rectangular HOMFLY for the figure eight knot},
  author = {A. Morozov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09728},
  year   = {2016}
}

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16 pages

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