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New structures for colored HOMFLY-PT invariants

Geometric Topology 2021-06-08 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

In this paper, we present several new structures for the colored HOMFLY-PT invariants of framed links. First, we prove the strong integrality property for the normalized colored HOMFLY-PT invariants by purely using the HOMFLY-PT skein theory developed by H. Morton and his collaborators. By this strong integrality property, we immediately obtain several symmetric properties for the full colored HOMFLY-PT invariants of links. Then, we apply our results to refine the mathematical structures appearing in the Labastida-Mari\~no-Ooguri-Vafa (LMOV) integrality conjecture for framed links. As another application of the strong integrality, we obtain that the q=1q=1 and a=1a=1 specializations of the normalized colored HOMFLY-PT invariant are well-defined link polynomials. We find that a conjectural formula for the colored Alexander polynomial which is the a=1a=1 specialization of the normalized colored HOMFLY-PT invariant implies that a special case of the LMOV conjecture for frame knot holds.

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@article{arxiv.2105.02037,
  title  = {New structures for colored HOMFLY-PT invariants},
  author = {Shengmao Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.02037},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

59 pages, revised version, several typos are corrected

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