A generating series for Murakami-Ohtsuki-Yamada graph evaluations (Q490028)

A sequence of quantum invariants is \(q\)-holonomic if it satisfies a certain type of linear recursion. A mathematical approach to proving mirror-symmetry-based conjectures for quantum invariants is based on studying such recursions. This direction has been fruitful in the case of the coloured Jones polynomial, and the motivation behind this paper is to extend this approach to coloured HOMFLY polynomials. The first-named author has recently shown that coloured HOMFLY polynomials are \(q\)-holonomic [\textit{S. Garoufalidis}, ``The colored HOMFLY polynomial is \(q\)-holonomic'', arXiv preprint \url{arXiv:1211.6388} (2012)]. The combinatorics underlying the linear recursions for coloured HOMFLY polynomials is related to evaluations of Murakami-Ohtsuki-Yamada (MOY) graphs. In the paper under review, following their approach for spin network evaluations ([\textit{S. Garoufalidis} and \textit{R. van der Veen}, Geom. Topol. 17, No. 1, 1--37 (2013; Zbl 1277.57020)], with an appendix by Don Zagier), the authors prove a generating series formula for the evaluation of MOY graphs. In the future the authors intend to use this formula to study linear recursions of sequences for coloured HOMFLY polynomials with a view to attacking conjectures relating these to \(q\)-deformed \(A\)-polynomials and related objects.