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Superpolynomials for toric knots from evolution induced by cut-and-join operators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-12-07 v4 Geometric Topology

Abstract

The colored HOMFLY polynomials, which describe Wilson loop averages in Chern-Simons theory, possess an especially simple representation for torus knots, which begins from quantum R-matrix and ends up with a trivially-looking split W representation familiar from character calculus applications to matrix models and Hurwitz theory. Substitution of MacDonald polynomials for characters in these formulas provides a very simple description of "superpolynomials", much simpler than the recently studied alternative which deforms relation to the WZNW theory and explicitly involves the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. A lot of explicit expressions are presented for different representations (Young diagrams), many of them new. In particular, we provide the superpolynomial P_[1]^[m,km\pm 1] for arbitrary m and k. The procedure is not restricted to the fundamental (all antisymmetric) representations and the torus knots, still in these cases some subtleties persist.

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@article{arxiv.1106.4305,
  title  = {Superpolynomials for toric knots from evolution induced by cut-and-join operators},
  author = {P. Dunin-Barkowski and A. Mironov and A. Morozov and A. Sleptsov and A. Smirnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4305},
  year   = {2016}
}

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23 pages + Tables (51 pages)

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