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We study the connection between topological strings and contact homology recently proposed in the context of knot invariants. In particular, we establish the proposed relation between the Gromov-Witten disk amplitudes of a Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-01 Mina Aganagic , Tobias Ekholm , Lenhard Ng , Cumrun Vafa

Theory of motivic superpolynomials is developed, including its extension to algebraic links colored by rows, relations to $L$-functions of plane curve singularities, the justification of the motivic versions of Weak Riemann Hypothesis, and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ivan Cherednik

By applying Seifert's algorithm to a special alternating diagram of a link L, one obtains a Seifert surface F of L. We show that the support of the sutured Floer homology of the sutured manifold complementary to F is affine isomorphic to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-18 András Juhász , Tamás Kálmán , Jacob Rasmussen

Colored HOMFLY-PT invariant, the generalization of the colored Jones polynomial, is one of the most important quantum invariants of links. This paper is devoted to investigating the basic structures of the colored HOMFLY-PT invariants of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Qingtao Chen , Kefeng Liu , Pan Peng , Shengmao Zhu

This paper provides both a detailed study of color-dependence of link homologies, as realized in physics as certain spaces of BPS states, and a broad study of the behavior of BPS states in general. We consider how the spectrum of BPS states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-25 Sergei Gukov , Satoshi Nawata , Ingmar Saberi , Marko Stosic , Piotr Sułkowski

This paper discusses ways to categorify chromatic, dichromatic and Penrose polynomials, including categorifications of integer evaluations of chromatic polynomials. We show that with an appropriate choice of variables the coefficients of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Louis H Kauffman

We present a systematic classification of uncolored bonded knots with singularity number at most seven. Bonded knots provide a topological model for closed protein chains with intramolecular bridges, such as disulfide bonds. Following the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Boštjan Gabrovšek , Matic Simonič , Wanda Niemyska

The differential expansion is one of the key structures reflecting group theory properties of colored knot polynomials, which also becomes an important tool for evaluation of non-trivial Racah matrices. This makes highly desirable its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-30 C. Bai , J. Jiang , J. Liang , A. Mironov , A. Morozov , An. Morozov , A. Sleptsov

This is a survey talk on one of the best known quantum knot invariants, the colored Jones polynomial of a knot, and its relation to the algebraic/geometric topology and hyperbolic geometry of the knot complement. We review several aspects…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-04-03 Stavros Garoufalidis

We follow the same technics we used before in \cite{AZ} of extending knot Floer homology to embedded graphs in a 3-manifold, by using the Kauffman topological invariant of embedded graphs by associating family of links and knots to a such…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Ahmad Zainy Al-Yasry

Given any unoriented link diagram, a group of new knot invariants are constructed. Each of them satisfies a generalized 4 term skein relation. The coefficients of each invariant is from a commutative ring. Homomorphisms and representations…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-04-14 Zhiqing Yang , Jifu Xiao

The SO(3) Kauffman polynomial and the chromatic polynomial of planar graphs are categorified by a unique extension of the Khovanov homology framework. Many structural observations and computations of homologies of knots and spin networks…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Benjamin Cooper , Matt Hogancamp , Vyacheslav Krushkal

In this paper, we study 2-representations of 2-quantum groups (in the sense of Rouquier and Khovanov-Lauda) categorifying tensor products of irreducible representations. Our aim is to construct knot homologies categorifying…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-06 Ben Webster

Colored tensor models have recently burst onto the scene as a promising conceptual and computational tool in the investigation of problems of random geometry in dimension three and higher. We present a snapshot of the cutting edge in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-11 Razvan Gurau , James P. Ryan

A table of the families of alternating knots formed by conways is presented. The Conway's function is shown with the use of linear algebra in terms of natural numbers, called conways, that represent the number of crossings along a…

General Topology · Mathematics 2012-12-14 E. Piña

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 $q$ and $A = q^N$. These parameters preserve topological invariance and do not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-17 A. Morozov , An. Morozov , A. Popolitov

Recently it was shown that the (Ooguri-Vafa) generating function of HOMFLY polynomials is the Hurwitz partition function, i.e. that the dependence of the HOMFLY polynomials on representation R is naturally captured by symmetric group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-25 A. Mironov , A. Morozov , A. Sleptsov , A. Smirnov

We define a supercategorification of the $q$-Schur algebra of level two and an odd analogue of $\mathfrak{gl}_2$-foams. Using these constructions, we define a homological invariant of tangles, and show that it coincides with odd Khovanov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Léo Schelstraete , Pedro Vaz

Knot contact homology studies symplectic and contact geometric properties of conormals of knots in 3-manifolds using holomorphic curve techniques. It has connections to both mathematical and physical theories. On the mathematical side, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Tobias Ekholm

Using the duality between Wilson loop expectation values of SU(N) Chern-Simons theory on $S^3$ and topological open-string amplitudes on the local mirror of the resolved conifold, we study knots on $S^3$ and their invariants encoded in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Jie Gu , Hans Jockers , Albrecht Klemm , Masoud Soroush