Skein theory and Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of links in lens spaces

DOI10.1007/S002200050588MaRDI QIDQ1809301zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Patrick M. Gilmer

Publication date 16 December 1999

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9801132

zbMATH Keywords

Kauffman skein moduletopological quantum field theoryWitten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: We study the behavior of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev SU(2) invariants of links in L(p,q) as a function of the level r-2. They are given by 1 over the square root of r times one of p Laurent polynomials evaluated at e to the 2 pi i divided by 4pr. The congruence class of r modulo p determines which polynomial is applicable. If p is zero modulo four, the meridian of L(p,q) is non-trivial in the skein module but has trivial Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev SU(2) invariants. On the other hand, we show that one may recover the element in the Kauffman bracket skein module of L(p,q) represented by a link from the collection of the WRT invariants at all levels if p is a prime or twice an odd prime. By a more delicate argument, this is also shown to be true for p=9.

Review text

The paper under review studies the behavior of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev \(SU(2)\) invariants of an arbitrary link (or more generally an arbitrary skein class in the Kauffman bracket skein module) in the lens space \(L(p,q)\) as a function of \(r\), where \(r-2\) is the level of the invariant. Note that the Kauffman skein module of \(L(p,q)\) is generated by \([p/2]+1\) generators \(x_{0},x_{1},\dots,x_{[p/2]}\), where \(x_{0}\) is the empty link, \(x_{1}\) is the core of a solid torus if we regard the lens space as a union of two solid tori, and \(x_{i}\) is \(i\) parallels of \(x_{1}\) [\textit{J. Hoste} and \textit{J. H. Przytycki}, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 2, No. 3, 321-333 (1993; Zbl 0796.57005)]. We also note that if \(p=1\) (in this case \(L(p,q)\) is the three-sphere), the skein module is generated by a single element and the WRT invariant is nothing but the Jones polynomial (or the Kauffman bracket). The main result of this paper is that there are \(p\) Laurent polynomials in \(z\) such that we recover the WRT invariant if we replace \(z\) with \(\exp(2\pi\sqrt{-1}/4pr)\) and multiply by \(\sqrt{r}\). The author also shows that if \(p\equiv 0\pmod 4\) and \(c\) is odd then all the WRT invariants of \(x_{c}\) vanish even though \(x_{c}\) is non-trivial as a skein element. Contrarily, it is also proved that if \(p\) is a prime or twice an odd prime, then any skein class is determined by its WRT invariants for all levels. The same is true for \(L(9,q)\) with \(q\) prime to \(9\). The proof uses \textit{L. C. Jeffrey}'s technique [Commun. Math. Phys. 147, No. 3, 563-604 (1992; Zbl 0755.53054)] to obtain the WRT invariants of lens spaces with empty link by using a topological quantum field theoretical argument.

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• SKEIN RELATIONS FOR THE LINK INVARIANTS COMING FROM EXCEPTIONAL LIE ALGEBRAS
• On the Kauffman bracket skein module of the 3-torus
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