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HOMFLY polynomials in representation [3,1] for 3-strand braids

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-28 v1 Geometric Topology Quantum Algebra

Abstract

This paper is a new step in the project of systematic description of colored knot polynomials started in arXiv:1506.00339. In this paper, we managed to explicitly find the inclusive Racah matrix, i.e. the whole set of mixing matrices in channels R^3->Q with all possible Q, for R=[3,1]. The calculation is made possible by the use of a newly-developed efficient highest-weight method, still it remains tedious. The result allows one to evaluate and investigate [3,1]-colored polynomials for arbitrary 3-strand knots, and this confirms many previous conjectures on various factorizations, universality, and differential expansions. We consider in some detail the next-to-twist-knots three-strand family (n,-1|1,-1) and deduce its colored HOMFLY. Also confirmed and clarified is the eigenvalue hypothesis for the Racah matrices, which promises to provide a shortcut to generic formulas for arbitrary representations.

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@article{arxiv.1605.02313,
  title  = {HOMFLY polynomials in representation [3,1] for 3-strand braids},
  author = {A. Mironov and A. Morozov and An. Morozov and A. Sleptsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.02313},
  year   = {2016}
}

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21 pages