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Knot homologies and generalized quiver partition functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-14 v2 Geometric Topology Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We conjecture a relation between generalized quiver partition functions and generating functions for symmetrically colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials and corresponding HOMFLY-PT homology Poincar\'e polynomials of a knot KK. We interpret the generalized quiver nodes as certain basic holomorphic curves with boundary on the knot conormal LKL_K in the resolved conifold, and the adjacency matrix as measuring their boundary linking. The simplest such curves are embedded disks with boundary in the primitive homology class of LKL_K, other basic holomorphic curves consists of two parts: an embedded punctured sphere and a multiply covered punctured disk with boundary in a multiple of the primitive homology class of LKL_K. We also study recursion relations for the partition functions connected to knot homologies. We show that, after a suitable change of variables, any (generalized) quiver partition function satisfies the recursion relation of a single toric brane in C3\mathbb{C}^3.

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@article{arxiv.2108.12645,
  title  = {Knot homologies and generalized quiver partition functions},
  author = {Tobias Ekholm and Piotr Kucharski and Pietro Longhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12645},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

70 pages. Version 2 is reorganized and updated with new results. The main addition is a study of deformations of moduli spaces of holomorphic curves and associated generalized quiver partition functions, updated to take values in chain complexes

R2 v1 2026-06-24T05:29:34.494Z