Knot homologies and generalized quiver partition functions
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 . We interpret the generalized quiver nodes as certain basic holomorphic curves with boundary on the knot conormal 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 , 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 . 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 .
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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