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Knot polynomials for twist satellites

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-05-29 v1 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

We begin the systematic study of knot polynomials for the twist satellites of a knot, when its strand is substituted by a 2-strand twist knot. This is a generalization of cabling (torus satellites), when the substitute of the strand was a torus knot. We describe a general decomposition of satellite's colored HOMFLY in those of the original knot, where contributing are adjoint and other representations from the "E8E_8-sector", what makes the story closely related to Vogel's universality. We also point out a problem with lifting the decomposition rule to the level of superpolynomials -- it looks like such rule, if any, should be different for positive and negative twistings.

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@article{arxiv.1801.02407,
  title  = {Knot polynomials for twist satellites},
  author = {A. Morozov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02407},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 pages

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