Integrality of Kauffman brackets of trivalent graphs
Quantum Algebra
2009-11-29 v2
Abstract
We show that Kauffman brackets of colored framed graphs (also known as quantum spin networks) can be renormalized to a Laurent polynomial with integer coefficients by multiplying it by a coefficient which is a product of quantum factorials depending only on the abstract combinatorial structure of the graph. Then we compare the shadow-state sums and the state-sums based on -matrices and Clebsch-Gordan symbols, reprove their equivalence and comment on the integrality of the weight of the states. We also provide short proofs of most of the standard identities satisfied by quantum -symbols of .
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@article{arxiv.0908.0542,
title = {Integrality of Kauffman brackets of trivalent graphs},
author = {Francesco Costantino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0542},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
25 pages. Refined statement of main Theorem. Restructured Section 1