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On ambiguity in knot polynomials for virtual knots

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-17 v2 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

We claim that HOMFLY polynomials for virtual knots, defined with the help of the matrix-model recursion relations, contain more parameters, than just the usual qq and A=qNA = q^N. These parameters preserve topological invariance and do not show up in the case of ordinary (non-virtual) knots and links. They are most conveniently observed in the hypercube formalism: then they substitute qq-dimensions of certain fat graphs, which are not constrained by recursion and can be chosen arbitrarily. The number of these new topological invariants seems to grow fast with the number of non-virtual crossings: 0, 1, 1, 5, 15, 91, 784, 9160, ... This number can be decreased by imposing the factorization requirement for composites, in addition to topological invariance -- still freedom remains. None of these new parameters, however, appear in HOMFLY for Kishino unknot, which thus remains unseparated from the ordinary unknots even by this enriched set of knot invariants.

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@article{arxiv.1511.08242,
  title  = {On ambiguity in knot polynomials for virtual knots},
  author = {A. Morozov and An. Morozov and A. Popolitov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08242},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages

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