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Distinguishing Mutant Knots

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-04-06 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Knot theory is actively studied both by physicists and mathematicians as it provides a connecting centerpiece for many physical and mathematical theories. One of the challenging problems in knot theory is distinguishing mutant knots. Mutant knots are not distinguished by colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials for knots colored by either symmetric and or antisymmetric representations of SU(N)SU(N). Some of the mutant knots can be distinguished by the simplest non-symmetric representation [2,1][2,1]. However there is a class of mutant knots which require more complex representations like [4,2][4,2]. In this paper we calculate polynomials and differences for the mutant knot polynomials in representations [3,1][3,1] and [4,2][4,2] and study their properties.

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@article{arxiv.2007.12532,
  title  = {Distinguishing Mutant Knots},
  author = {L. Bishler and Saswati Dhara and T. Grigoryev and A. Mironov and A. Morozov and An. Morozov and P. Ramadevi and Vivek Kumar Singh and A. Sleptsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12532},
  year   = {2021}
}

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22 pages + 3 Appendices