Knot invariants from topological recursion on augmentation varieties

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2238-ZzbMATH Open1323.57008arXiv1401.5095OpenAlexW3104698478MaRDI QIDQ2018313FDOQ2018313

Authors: Jie Gu, Hans Jockers, Albrecht Klemm, Masoud Soroush 

Publication date: 14 April 2015

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

Abstract: Using the duality between Wilson loop expectation values of SU(N) Chern-Simons theory on $S^3$ and topological open-string amplitudes on the local mirror of the resolved conifold, we study knots on $S^3$ and their invariants encoded in colored HOMFLY polynomials by means of topological recursion. In the context of the local mirror Calabi-Yau threefold of the resolved conifold, we generalize the topological recursion of the remodelled B-model in order to study branes beyond the class of toric Harvey-Lawson special Lagrangians -- as required for analyzing non-trivial knots on $S^3$. The basic ingredients for the proposed recursion are the spectral curve, given by the augmentation variety of the knot, and the calibrated annulus kernel, encoding the topological annulus amplitudes associated to the knot. We present an explicit construction of the calibrated annulus kernel for torus knots and demonstrate the validity of the topological recursion. We further argue that -- if an explicit form of the calibrated annulus kernel is provided for any other knot -- the proposed topological recursion should still be applicable. We study the implications of our proposal for knot theory, which exhibit interesting consequences for colored HOMFLY polynomials of mutant knots.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5095

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zbMATH Keywords

Bergman kernelstring theorytopological recursionspectral curvesannulus kernelcolored HOMFLY polynomialsremodeled B-model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationships between algebraic curves and physics (14H81) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Symplectic aspects of mirror symmetry, homological mirror symmetry, and Fukaya category (53D37)

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