Legendrian DGA representations and the colored Kauffman polynomial (Q2307680)

If \(\alpha=dz-ydx\) is the standard contact structure \(\xi\) in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) with the front \((xz)\)-projection and the Lagrangian \((xy)\)-projection, then the \(1\)-jet space \(J^1M\) coordinatized as \((x,y,z)\), where \(M\) is \(\mathbb{R}\), \(S^1\), or \([0,1]\), is \(J^1M=T^*M\times\mathbb{R}\) viewed as \(M\times\mathbb{R}^2\). If \(K\subset J^1M\) is a Legendrian link equipped with some collection of basepoints, then \((\mathcal{A}(K),\partial)\) is the fully non-commutative version of the Chekanov-Eliashberg DGA, also called the Legendrian contact homology DGA, defined via the \((xy)\)-projection of \(K\). In [Quantum Topol. 11, No. 1, 55--118 (2020; Zbl 1443.57010)], \textit{C. Leverson} and \textit{D. Rutherford} considered 2-graded representations and the HOMFLY-PT polynomial, and established the equality between the \(m\)-graded total representation numbers and \(m\)-graded colored ruling polynomials. In this paper, the authors study similar problems for \(m=1\) or the ungraded case. Now, the augmentations of the Legendrian satellite of \(K\) with a Legendrian positive permutation braid associated to \(\beta\in S_n\) correspond to ungraded representations of \((\mathcal{A},\partial)\) on differential vector spaces of the form \((\mathbb{F}^n,d)\), where \(d\) varies over all ungraded upper triangular differentials on \(\mathbb{F}\). The ungraded total \(n\)-dimensional representation number, \(\mathrm{Rep}(K,\mathbb{F}^n_q)\), only counts representations with \(d=0\), so the \(n\)-colored ruling polynomial \(R^1_{n,K}\) has to be defined as a linear combination of satellite ruling polynomials of the form \[ R^1_{n,K}(q)=\frac1{c_n}\sum\limits_{\beta\in S_n}q^{\lambda(\beta)/2}\widetilde{R}^1_{S(K,\beta)}(z)\vert_{z=q^{1/2}-q^{-1/2}}, \] where \(\widetilde{R}^1_{S(K,\beta)}\) is the corresponding reduced ruling polynomial. The \(n\)-colored Kauffman polynomial \(F_{n,K}(a,q)\) is defined by satelliting \(K\) with the symmetrizer in the \(\mathrm{BMW}\) algebra \(\mathcal{Y}_n\). The main result of the paper states that for any Legendrian knot \(K\) in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) with its standard contact structure \(\xi\) and any \(n>1\), there is a well-defined specialization \(F_{n,K}(a,q)\vert_{a^{-1}=0}\) such that \[ \mathrm{Rep}_1(K,\mathbb{F}^n_q)=R^1_{n,K}(z)=F_{n,K}(a,q)\vert_{a^{-1}=0}. \] Also, the authors show that the ungraded total \(n\)-dimensional representation number \(\mathrm{Rep}_1(K,\mathbb{F}^n_q)\) depends only on the underlying framed knot type of \(K\).