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The A-polynomial encodes hyperbolic geometric information on knots and related manifolds. Historically, it has been difficult to compute, and particularly difficult to determine A-polynomials of infinite families of knots. Here, we compute…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Joshua A. Howie , Daniel V. Mathews , Jessica S. Purcell

Color Jones polynomial is one of the most important quantum invariants in knot theory. Finding the geometric information from the color Jones polynomial is an interesting topic. In this paper, we study the general expansion of color Jones…

General Topology · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Shengmao Zhu

Defect characterizes the depth of factorization of terms in differential (cyclotomic) expansions of knot polynomials, i.e. of the non-perturbative Wilson averages in the Chern-Simons theory. We prove the conjecture that the defect can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-16 E. Lanina , A. Morozov

The notion of chckerboard colorability for virtual links and abstract links is introduced. We study the Jones polynomials of virtual links and abstruct links. It is proved that a certain property of the Jones polynomials of classical links…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Naoko Kamada

We study the asymptotic behavior of the $N$-dimensional colored Jones polynomial evaluated at $\exp(\xi/N)$ for a real number $\xi$ greater than a certain constant. We prove that, from the asymptotic behavior, we can extract the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Hitoshi Murakami , Anh T. Tran

Classical A-polynomials $A(\ell,m)$ define constraints on coordinates $\ell$ and $m$ in $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ (a complexification of $SU(2)$) character varieties associated to knot complements $S^3\setminus K$. Quantum A-polynomials $\hat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Dmitry Galakhov , Alexei Morozov

The colored HOMLFY polynomial is an important knot invariant depending on two variables $a$ and $q$. We give bounds on the degree in both $a$ and $q$ generalizing Morton's bounds \cite{Mo86} for the ordinary HOMFLY polynomial. Our bounds…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Roland van der Veen

We present a new 2-variable generalization of the Jones polynomial that can be defined through the skein relation of the Jones polynomial. The well-definedness of this new generalization is proved both algebraically and diagrammatically as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Dimos Goundaroulis , Sofia Lambropoulou

We employ the sl(2) foam cohomology to define a cohomology theory for oriented framed tangles whose components are labelled by irreducible representations of U_q(sl(2)). We show that the corresponding colored invariants of tangles can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Carmen Caprau

We show that if the connected sum of two knots with coprime Alexander polynomials has vanishing von Neumann rho-invariants associated with certain metabelian representations then so do both knots. As an application, we give a new example of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-11 Se-Goo Kim , Taehee Kim

A state generating is introduced to determine the Jones polynomial of a link. Formulae for two infinite families of knots are shown by applying this method, the second family of which are proved to be non-alternating. Moreover, the method…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Liangxia Wan

This paper presents an algorithm to construct a weighted adjacency matrix of a plane bipartite graph obtained from a pretzel knot diagram. The determinant of this matrix after evaluation is shown to be the Jones polynomial of the pretzel…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-21 Moshe Cohen

We use deep neural networks to machine learn correlations between knot invariants in various dimensions. The three-dimensional invariant of interest is the Jones polynomial $J(q)$, and the four-dimensional invariants are the Khovanov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Jessica Craven , Mark Hughes , Vishnu Jejjala , Arjun Kar

Habiro lifted the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant of an integer homology 3-sphere (a complex-valued function on the set of complex roots of unity) to an element of the Habiro ring. We lift the colored Jones polynomial of a knot, with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Stavros Garoufalidis , Campbell Wheeler

In this note we give concise formulas, which lead to a simple and fast computer program that computes a powerful knot invariant. This invariant $\rho_1$ is not new, yet our formulas are by far the simplest and fastest: given a knot we write…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Dror Bar-Natan , Roland van der Veen

The colored Jones polynomial $J_{K,N}$ is an important quantum knot invariant in low-dimensional topology. In his seminal paper on quantum modular forms, Zagier predicted the behavior of $J_{K,0}(e^{2 \pi i x})$ under the action of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Christoph Aistleitner , Manuel Hauke

A polynomial knot is a smooth embedding $\kappa: \real \to \real^n$ whose components are polynomials. The case $n = 3$ is of particular interest. It is both an object of real algebraic geometry as well as being an open ended topological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alan Durfee , Donal O'Shea

We prove that the coefficients of the colored Jones polynomial of alternating links stabilize under increasing the number of twists in the twist regions of the link diagram. This gives us an infinite family of $q$-power series derived from…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Mohamed Elhamdadi , Mustafa Hajij , Masahico Saito

Link/knot invariants are series with integer coefficients, and it is a long-standing problem to get them positive and possessing cohomological interpretation. Constructing positive "superpolynomials" is not straightforward, especially for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-01 A. Mironov , A. Morozov

We propose a new gauge theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and quantum chromodynamics (QCD) from which we derive knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial. Our approach is inspired by the work of Witten who derived knot invariants…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-05-13 Sze Kui Ng