Infinitely many two-variable generalisations of the Alexander-Conway polynomial

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.405MaRDI QIDQ2571351zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David De Wit, Atsushi Ishii, Jon Links

Publication date 1 November 2005

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405403, https://eudml.org/doc/125493, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-18.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander-Conway polynomiallink invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37)

Abstract: We show that the Alexander-Conway polynomial Delta is obtainable via a particular one-variable reduction of each two-variable Links-Gould invariant LG^{m,1}, where m is a positive integer. Thus there exist infinitely many two-variable generalisations of Delta. This result is not obvious since in the reduction, the representation of the braid group generator used to define LG^{m,1} does not satisfy a second-order characteristic identity unless m=1. To demonstrate that the one-variable reduction of LG^{m,1} satisfies the defining skein relation of Delta, we evaluate the kernel of a quantum trace.

Review text

Let \(d\) be the Alexander-Conway polynomial. The authors study situations where certain two variable link invariants permit \(d\) as a one-variable reduction. The authors recall the link invariant \(LG^{m,1}(t,q)\) introduced by \textit{M. D. Gould, J. R. Links} and \textit{Y.-Z. Zhang} [J. Math. Phys. 37, 987--1003 (1996; Zbl 0877.17008)], but construct it using the representation theory of \(U_q[gl(m|1)]\), in particular the minimal one-parameter family of representations of dimension \(2^m\). The main result is that \(LG^{m,1}_L(t,q)=d_L(t^2m)\), where \(q\) is a primitive \(2m\)-th root of unity, for an oriented link \(L\). The recovery of \(d\) from \(LG^{m,1}\) had been obtained earlier by the second author when \(m=2\) [to appear, Pac. J. Math.], using \(U_q(sl(2|1))\). The current paper thus extends this result to \(m>2\). The proof involves determining the kernel of a quantum trace.

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