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Rectangular superpolynomials for the figure-eight knot

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-10-26 v2 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

We rewrite the recently proposed differential expansion formula for HOMFLY polynomials of the knot 414_1 in arbitrary rectangular representation R=[rs]R=[r^s] as a sum over all Young sub-diagrams λ\lambda of RR with extraordinary simple coefficients Dλtr(r)Dλ(s)D_{\lambda^{tr}}(r)\cdot D_\lambda(s) in front of the ZZ-factors. Somewhat miraculously, these coefficients are made from quantum dimensions of symmetric representations of the groups SL(r)SL(r) and SL(s)SL(s) and restrict summation to diagrams with no more than ss rows and rr columns. They possess a natural β\beta-deformation to Macdonald dimensions and produces positive Laurent polynomials, which can be considered as plausible candidates for the role of the rectangular superpolynomials. Both polynomiality and positivity are non-evident properties of arising expressions, still they are true. This extends the previous suggestions for symmetric and antisymmetric representations (when s=1s=1 or r=1r=1 respectively) to arbitrary rectangular representations. As usual for differential expansion, there are additional gradings. In the only example, available for comparison -- that of the trefoil knot 313_1, to which our results for 414_1 are straightforwardly extended, -- one of them reproduces the "fourth grading" for hyperpolynomials. Factorization properties are nicely preserved even in the 5-graded case.

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@article{arxiv.1609.00143,
  title  = {Rectangular superpolynomials for the figure-eight knot},
  author = {Ya. Kononov and A. Morozov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.00143},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages

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