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Shading A-polynomials via huge representations of $U_q(\mathfrak{su}_N)$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-22 v1 Mathematical Physics General Topology math.MP Quantum Algebra Representation Theory

Abstract

Classical A-polynomials A(,m)A(\ell,m) define constraints on coordinates \ell and mm in SL(2,C)SL(2,\mathbb{C}) (a complexification of SU(2)SU(2)) character varieties associated to knot complements S3KS^3\setminus K. Quantum A-polynomials A^(^,m^)\hat A(\hat \ell,\hat m) are difference operators annihilating Jones polynomials believed to represent wave functions of 3d Chern-Simons theory with gauge group SU(2)SU(2) on a toroidal pipe surrounding the knot KK strand -- a boundary of the knot complements S3KS^3\setminus K. We suggest a construction of classical shaded A-polynomials Aa(b,mc)A_a(\ell_b,m_c) associated to Lie groups SU(N)SU(N). We exploit a formalism of Clebsh-Gordan (CG) chords, where indices aa, bb, cc run over 1,,N11,\ldots,N-1. CG chords have a natural interpretation in terms of 2d CFTs of WZW type, or, alternatively, in terms of quantum group Uq(suN)U_q(\mathfrak{su}_N). In the case of su2\mathfrak{su}_2 CG chords could be associated to Reeb chords in a knot contact homology (KCH) framework. KCH suggests its own analogue of A-polynomials known as augmentation polynomials allowed to have extra spurious roots in principle. Yet the CG chord formalism could be easily extended to arbitrary suN\mathfrak{su}_N allowing us to generalize the construction of A(ugmentation)-polynomials to arbitrary suN\mathfrak{su}_N and arbitrary representation as well. Primarily we aim at classical A-polynomials by considering a double scaling limit when q=eq=e^{\hbar}, 0\hbar\to 0 and the representations are huge, in particular, highest weight vector components wiw_i\to \infty so that wimi\hbar w_i\sim m_i remain finite. Still we expect the presented techniques would be helpful in deriving quantum A-polynomials for arbitrary Lie (super)algebras g\mathfrak{g}. Also we discuss explicit examples of A-polynomials for knots 313_1, 414_1 and 515_1 for g=su3\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{su}_3.

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@article{arxiv.2605.22560,
  title  = {Shading A-polynomials via huge representations of $U_q(\mathfrak{su}_N)$},
  author = {Dmitry Galakhov and Alexei Morozov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22560},
  year   = {2026}
}

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36 pages, 7 figures