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Equations on knot polynomials and 3d/5d duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-03-13 v1 Geometric Topology Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We briefly review the current situation with various relations between knot/braid polynomials (Chern-Simons correlation functions), ordinary and extended, considered as functions of the representation and of the knot topology. These include linear skein relations, quadratic Plucker relations, as well as "differential" and (quantum) A-polynomial structures. We pay a special attention to identity between the A-polynomial equations for knots and Baxter equations for quantum relativistic integrable systems, related through Seiberg-Witten theory to 5d super-Yang-Mills models and through the AGT relation to the q-Virasoro algebra. This identity is an important ingredient of emerging a 3d-5d generalization of the AGT relation. The shape of the Baxter equation (including the values of coefficients) depend on the choice of the knot/braid. Thus, like the case of KP integrability, where (some, so far torus) knots parameterize particular points of the Universal Grassmannian, in this relation they parameterize particular points in the moduli space of many-body integrable systems of relativistic type.

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@article{arxiv.1208.2282,
  title  = {Equations on knot polynomials and 3d/5d duality},
  author = {A. Mironov and A. Morozov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2282},
  year   = {2013}
}

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19 pages, contribution to Proceedings of 6th International School on Field Theory and Gravitation (Petropolis, Brazil, 2012)

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