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Evolution method and "differential hierarchy" of colored knot polynomials

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-01-30 v1 Geometric Topology Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We consider braids with repeating patterns inside arbitrary knots which provides a multi-parametric family of knots, depending on the "evolution" parameter, which controls the number of repetitions. The dependence of knot (super)polynomials on such evolution parameters is very easy to find. We apply this evolution method to study of the families of knots and links which include the cases with just two parallel and anti-parallel strands in the braid, like the ordinary twist and 2-strand torus knots/links and counter-oriented 2-strand links. When the answers were available before, they are immediately reproduced, and an essentially new example is added of the "double braid", which is a combination of parallel and anti-parallel 2-strand braids. This study helps us to reveal with the full clarity and partly investigate a mysterious hierarchical structure of the colored HOMFLY polynomials, at least, in (anti)symmetric representations, which extends the original observation for the figure-eight knot to many (presumably all) knots. We demonstrate that this structure is typically respected by the t-deformation to the superpolynomials.

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@article{arxiv.1306.3197,
  title  = {Evolution method and "differential hierarchy" of colored knot polynomials},
  author = {A. Mironov and A. Morozov and An. Morozov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3197},
  year   = {2014}
}

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31 pages

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