The Jones polynomial and functions of positive type on the oriented Jones-Thompson groups F and T

DOI10.1007/S11785-018-0866-6MaRDI QIDQ2008148zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Valeriano Aiello, Roberto Conti

Publication date 22 November 2019

Published in Complex Analysis and Operator Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03946

zbMATH Keywords

2-variable Kauffman polynomialchromatic polynomialFox colouringsfunction of positive typeHOMFLY polynomialJones polynomialKauffman bracketknotslink colouringslinkspartition functionrank polynomialThompson grouptreesTutte polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph polynomials (05C31) Positive definite functions on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A35) Knot polynomials (57K14)

Abstract: The pioneering work of Jones and Kauffman unveiled a fruitful relationship between statistical mechanics and knot theory. Recently, Jones introduced two subgroups $vecF$ and $vecT$ of the Thompson groups $F$ and $T$, respectively, together with a procedure that associates an oriented link diagram to any element of these subgroups. Moreover, several specializations of some well-known polynomial link invariants can be seen as functions of positive type on the Thompson groups or the Jones-Thompson subgroups. One important example is provided by suitable evaluations of the Jones polynomial, which are thus associated with certain unitary representations of the groups $vecF$ and $vecT$. Within this framework, we discuss an alternative approach that relies on some partition function interpretation of the Jones polynomial, and also exhibit more examples associated with other link invariants, notably the two-variable Kauffman polynomial and the HOMFLY polynomial. In the unoriented case, extending our previous results, we also show by similar methods that certain evaluations of the Tutte polynomial and of the Kauffman bracket, suitably renormalized, yield functions of positive type on $T$.

Review text

In a recent paper [J. Comb. Algebra 1, No. 1, 1--44 (2017; Zbl 1472.57014)], \textit{V. F. R. Jones} introduced the oriented subgroups \(\vec F\) and \(\vec T\) of the Thompson groups \(F\) and \(T\), together with a procedure which associates an oriented link diagram to each element of these subgroups (\(\vec F\) is also isomophic to the Thompson group \(F_3\) defined by using triadic subdivisions, see a paper by \textit{G. Golan} and \textit{M. Sapir} [J. Algebra 470, 122--159 (2017; Zbl 1375.20043)]). Then some specializations of well-known polynomial link invariants can be interpreted as functions of positive type on the Thomson groups or the Jones-Thompson subgroups (e.g., suitable evaluations of the Jones polynomial and the Kauffman bracket can be seen as coefficients of certain unitary representations of the Thompson groups; see the above paper by Jones). Quoting from the authors' abstract: ``Within this framework, we discuss an alternative approach that relies on some partition function interpretation of the Jones polynomial, and also exhibit more examples associated with other link invariants, notably the two-variable Kauffman polynomial and the HOMFLY-polynomial. In the unoriented case, extending our previous results [J. Knot Theory Ramifications 28, No. 2, Article ID 1950006, 17 p. (2019; Zbl 1412.43007)], we also show by similar methods that certain evaluations of the Tutte polynomial and of the Kauffman bracket, suitably renormalized, yield functions of positive type on \(T\).

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