The colored HOMFLYPT function is q-holonomic

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Abstract: We prove that the HOMFLYPT polynomial of a link, colored by partitions with a fixed number of rows is a q-holonomic function. Specializing to the case of knots colored by a partition with a single row, it proves the existence of an (a,q) super-polynomial of knots in 3-space, as was conjectured by string theorists. Our proof uses skew Howe duality that reduces the evaluation of web diagrams and their ladders to a Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt computation of an auxiliary quantum group of rank the number of strings of the ladder diagram.


The colored Jones function is a sequence of Laurent polynomials roughly measuring the Jones polynomial of a knot and its cables. In [Geom. Topol. 9, 1253--1293 (2005; Zbl 1078.57012)], \textit{S. Garoufalidis} and \textit{T. T. Q. Lê} showed the existence of a recursion relation among the colored Jones polynomials. This relation has been the basis for the famous AJ conjecture of \textit{S. Garoufalidis} [Geom. Topol. Monogr. 7, 291--309 (2004; Zbl 1080.57014)], positing a relation between this recursion and the $A$-polynomial of the knot. \par More recently, mathematicians and physicists have suggested a possible relationship between colored HOMFLYPT polynomials and a polynomial arising from knot contact homology [\textit{M. Aganagic} et al., Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 18, No. 4, 827--956 (2014; Zbl 1315.81076)]. In the paper reviewed here, the authors use skew-Howe duality to build on the earlier work of Garoufalidis and Lê to establish a recurrence relation satisfied by the colored HOMFLYPT polynomials.



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