Patterns of the $V_2$-polynomial of knots
Abstract
Recently, Kashaev and the first author constructed an -matrix from a Nichols algebra with an automorphism, that leads, via the Reshetikhin--Turaev functor, to a multivariable polynomial invariant of knots. Applying this to a rank 2 Nichols algebra, results in a sequence of 2-variable knot polynomials with integer coefficients, the first polynomial been identified with the Links--Gould polynomial. In this note we present the results of the computation of the -polynomials for . This leads to the discovery of emerging patterns, including the genus bound for being an equality for all 352.2 million knots with at most crossings, as well as unexpected Conway mutations that seem undetected by the -polynomials as well as by Heegaard Floer Homology and Khovanov Homology.
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@article{arxiv.2409.03557,
title = {Patterns of the $V_2$-polynomial of knots},
author = {Stavros Garoufalidis and Shana Yunsheng Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.03557},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
26 pages, 12 figures. Updated version to include up-to-date results for all 352.2 million knots with at most 19 crossings. To appear in Experimental Mathematics