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Colored HOMFLY and Generalized Mandelbrot set

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-05-02 v1 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

Mandelbrot set is a closure of the set of zeroes of resultantx(Fn,Fm)resultant_x(F_n,F_m) for iterated maps Fn(x)=fn(x)xF_n(x)=f^{\circ n}(x)-x in the moduli space of maps f(x)f(x). The wonderful fact is that for a given nn all zeroes are not chaotically scattered around the moduli space, but lie on smooth curves, with just a few cusps, located at zeroes of discriminantx(Fn)discriminant_x(F_n). We call this phenomenon the Mandelbrot property. If approached by the cabling method, symmetrically-colored HOMFLY polynomials HnK(Aq)H^{\cal K}_n(A|q) can be considered as linear forms on the nn-th "power" of the knot K{\cal K}, and one can wonder if zeroes of resultantq2(Hn,Hm)resultant_{q^2}(H_n,H_m) can also possess the Mandelbrot property. We present and discuss such resultant-zeroes patterns in the complex-AA plane. Though AA is hardly an adequate parameter to describe the moduli space of knots, the Mandelbrot-like structure is clearly seen -- in full accord with the vision of arXiv:hep-th/0501235, that concrete slicing of the Universal Mandelbrot set is not essential for revealing its structure.

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@article{arxiv.1510.01252,
  title  = {Colored HOMFLY and Generalized Mandelbrot set},
  author = {Ya. Kononov and A. Morozov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01252},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16 pages

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