The SL₃ colored Jones polynomial of the trefoil

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2013-11582-0MaRDI QIDQ2838979zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stavros Garoufalidis, H. R. Morton, Thao Vuong

Publication date 4 July 2013

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3147

zbMATH Keywords

colored Jones polynomialdegree conjectureknotsplethysmrank 2 Lie algebrastorus knotstrefoilWitten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants

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Abstract: Rosso and Jones gave a formula for the colored Jones polynomial of a torus knot, colored by an irreducible representation of a simple Lie algebra. The Rosso-Jones formula involves a plethysm function, unknown in general. We provide an explicit formula for the second plethysm of an arbitrary representation of $fs{l}_3$, which allows us to give an explicit formula for the colored Jones polynomial of the trefoil, and more generally, for T(2,n) torus knots. We give two independent proofs of our plethysm formula, one of which uses the work of Carini-Remmel. Our formula for the $fs{l}_3$ colored Jones polynomial of T(2,n) torus knots allows us to verify the Degree Conjecture for those knots, to efficiently the $fs{l}_3$ Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of the Poincare sphere, and to guess a Groebner basis for recursion ideal of the $fs{l}_3$ colored Jones polynomial of the trefoil.

Review text

The paper under review supplies explicit formulae for the \(\mathfrak{sl}_3\) coloured Jones polynomials for \(T(2,n)\) torus knots. For the trefoil (the \(n=3\) case) the formula agrees with a result of \textit{R. Lawrence} [Topology Appl. 127, No.1--2, 153--168 (2003; Zbl 1022.57005)], while for higher values of \(n\) it adds to the small number of explicit computations of coloured Jones polynomial computations which exist beyond the \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\) case, providing additional support to the Degree Conjecture.NEWLINENEWLINEThe formulae in the paper are realizations of a method of \textit{V. Jones} and \textit{M. Rosso}, which requires a plethysm function [J. Knot Theory Ramifications 2, No. 1, 97--112 (1993; Zbl 0787.57006)]. The technical content of the paper under review is a computation of the ``second plethysm function of an arbitrary representation of \(\mathfrak{sl}_3\). This is carried out in two ways, one of which makes essential use of a formula due to \textit{L. Carini} and \textit{J. B. Remmel} [Discrete Math. 193, No. 1--3, 147--177 (1998; Zbl 1061.05505)].

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