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SU(N) quantum Racah coefficients & non-torus links

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-01-11 v7 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

It is well-known that the SU(2) quantum Racah coefficients or the Wigner 6j6j symbols have a closed form expression which enables the evaluation of any knot or link polynomials in SU(2) Chern-Simons field theory. Using isotopy equivalence of SU(N) Chern-Simons functional integrals over three balls with one or more S2S^2 boundaries with punctures, we obtain identities to be satisfied by the SU(N) quantum Racah coefficients. This enables evaluation of the coefficients for a class of SU(N) representations. Using these coefficients, we can compute the polynomials for some non-torus knots and two-component links. These results are useful for verifying conjectures in topological string theory.

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@article{arxiv.1107.3918,
  title  = {SU(N) quantum Racah coefficients & non-torus links},
  author = {Zodinmawia and P. Ramadevi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.3918},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

41 pages, 9 figures, Latex file, few typos corrected, added appendices of data in arXiv 1209.1346, added references,to appear in Nuclear Physics B

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