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The physical 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theory T[Y] was previously used to predict the existence of some 3-manifold invariants $\hat{Z}_{a}(q)$ that take the form of power series with integer coefficients, converging in the unit disk. Their radial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Sergei Gukov , Ciprian Manolescu

Using special polynomials introduced by Hikami and the second author in their study of torus knots, we construct classes of $q$-hypergeometric series lying in the Habiro ring. These give rise to new families of quantum modular forms, and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Kathrin Bringmann , Jeremy Lovejoy , Larry Rolen

We prove a two-parameter family of $q$-hypergeometric congruences modulo the fourth power of a cyclotomic polynomial. Crucial ingredients in our proof are George Andrews' multiseries extension of the Watson transformation, and a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Victor J. W. Guo , Michael J. Schlosser

Using skein valued holomorphic curve counting techniques, we give a flow loop formula for the skein valued partition function of the Lagrangian knot complement of a fibered knot (of the $A$-model open topological strings with Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-02 Sachin Chauhan , Tobias Ekholm , Pietro Longhi

Every torus knot can be represented as a Fourier-(1,1,2) knot which is the simplest possible Fourier representation for such a knot. This answers a question of Kauffman and confirms the conjecture made by Boocher, Daigle, Hoste and Zheng.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-28 Jim Hoste

The state of a knot is defined in the realm of Chern-Simons topological quantum field theory as a holomorphic section on the SU(2) character manifold of the peripheral torus. We compute the asymptotics of the torus knot states in terms of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Laurent Charles

We calculate the twisted Reidemeister torsion of the complement of an iterated torus knot associated with a representation of its fundamental group to the complex special linear group of degree two. We also show that the twisted…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Hitoshi Murakami

We observe that the strong slope conjecture implies that the degree of the colored Jones polynomial detects all torus knots. As an application we obtain that an adequate knot that has the same colored Jones polynomial degrees as a torus…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Efstratia Kalfagianni

The colored Jones polynomial is a $q$-polynomial invariant of links colored by irreducible representations of a simple Lie algebra. A $q$-series called a tail is obtained as the limit of the $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ colored Jones polynomials…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Wataru Yuasa

We give, using an explicit expression obtained in [V. Jones, Ann. of Math. 126, 335 (1987)], a basic hypergeometric representation of the HOMFLY polynomial of $(n,m)$ torus knots, and present a number of equivalent expressions, all related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-11 Georgios Giasemidis , Miguel Tierz

In this work we demonstrate that the q-numbers and their two-parameter generalization, the q,p-numbers, can be used to obtain some polynomial invariants for torus knots and links. First, we show that the q-numbers, which are closely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-27 A. M. Gavrilik , A. M. Pavlyuk

We propose a version of the volume conjecture that would relate a certain limit of the colored Jones polynomials of a knot to the volume function defined by a representation of the fundamental group of the knot complement to the special…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Hitoshi Murakami

In his influential paper on quantum modular forms, Zagier developed a conjectural framework describing the behavior of certain quantum knot invariants under the action of the modular group on their arguments. More precisely, when $J_{K,0}$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Christoph Aistleitner , Bence Borda

We compute the Kauffman skein module of the complement of torus knots in S^3. Precisely, we show that these modules are isomorphic to the algebra of Sl(2,C)-characters tensored with the ring of Laurent polynomials.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-01-20 Julien Marche

We analyse the perturbative expansion of the knot invariants defined from the unitary representations of the Quantum Lorentz Group in two different ways, namely using the Kontsevich Integral and weight systems, and the $R$-matrix in the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Joao Faria Martins

This is the second article in a series devoted to the study of the asymptotic expansions of various quantum invariants related to the twist knots. In this article, following the method and results in \cite{CZ23-1}, we present an asymptotic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Qingtao Chen , Shengmao Zhu

In this note we examine a possible extension of the matrix integral representation of knot invariants beyond the class of torus knots. In particular, we study a representation of the SU(2) quantum Racah coefficients by double matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Alexander Alexandrov , Dmitry Melnikov

A symmetry extending the $T^2$-symmetry of the noncommutative torus $T^2_q$ is studied in the category of quantum groups. This extended symmetry is given by the quantum double-torus defined as a compact matrix quantum group consisting of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-10-31 P. M. Hajac , T. Masuda

We review the Reshetikhin-Turaev approach to construction of non-compact knot invariants involving R-matrices associated with infinite-dimensional representations, primarily those made from Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm. The corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-02 D. Galakhov , A. Mironov , A. Morozov

Closed geodesics associated with indefinite binary quadratic forms, or equivalently with real quadratic irrationals, have long been studied as geometric $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$-invariants. Building on the Birman-Williams approach to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Soon-Yi Kang , Toshiki Matsusaka , Kyungbae Park