Jaeger's Higman-Sims state model and the B_ 2 spider

DOI10.1006/JABR.1997.7045MaRDI QIDQ1372657zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Greg Kuperberg

Publication date 22 April 1998

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9601221

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checkerboard modelgraph invariantsKauffman polynomiallinkquantum topological invariantskein relationstate model

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Abstract: Jaeger [Geom. Dedicata 44 (1992), 23-52] discovered a remarkable checkerboard state model based on the Higman-Sims graph that yields a value of the Kauffman polynomial, which is a quantum invariant of links. We present a simple argument that the state model has the desired properties using the combinatorial $B_2$ spider [Comm. Math. Phys. 180 (1996), 109-151].

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State models are one of the two main classes of objects which define quantum topological invariants for links (the other class of objects being skein relations). One of the main examples of a state model is a checkerboard state model. One remarkable checkerboard model has been discovered by \textit{F. Jaeger} [Geom. Dedicata 44, No. 1, 23-52 (1992; Zbl 0773.57005)]; it is based on the Higman-Sims graph. In particular, this model produces the value of the Kauffman polynomial at \(Q=\tau\), the golden ratio, and \(d=-1\). In quantum group terms, this corresponds to the \(q=\tau^{-2}\) point of the quantum group \(U_q(sp(4))\). In this paper, the author presents a simple argument that the state model has the desired properties, using the combinatorial \(B_2\) spider, which is essentially a skein type of trivalent planar graphs with unoriented edges of two types, which the author has studied in [Commun. Math. Phys. 180, No. 1, 109-151 (1996; Zbl 0870.17005)].

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