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

DOI10.1007/S11785-018-0866-6zbMATH Open1428.43005arXiv1603.03946OpenAlexW2302529449MaRDI QIDQ2008148FDOQ2008148

Valeriano Aiello, Roberto Conti

Publication date: 22 November 2019

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

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 $T$.

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

zbMATH Keywords

treespartition functionchromatic polynomialJones polynomialknotsTutte polynomiallinksHOMFLY polynomialThompson groupKauffman bracketrank polynomialfunction of positive typeFox colourings2-variable Kauffman polynomiallink colourings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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