The moduli problem of Lobb and Zentner and the colored sl(N) graph invariant

DOI10.1142/S0218216513500600MaRDI QIDQ2859567zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jonathan Grant

Publication date 8 November 2013

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4511

zbMATH Keywords

colored graphmoduli problemMOY graphMOY polynomialrepresentation variety

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Abstract: Motivated by a possible connection between the $mathrmSU(N)$ instanton knot Floer homology of Kronheimer and Mrowka and $mathfraksl(N)$ Khovanov-Rozansky homology, Lobb and Zentner recently introduced a moduli problem associated to colourings of trivalent graphs of the kind considered by Murakami, Ohtsuki and Yamada in their state-sum interpretation of the quantum $mathfraksl(N)$ knot polynomial. For graphs with two colours, they showed this moduli space can be thought of as a representation variety, and that its Euler characteristic is equal to the $mathfraksl(N)$ polynomial of the graph evaluated at 1. We extend their results to graphs with arbitrary colourings by irreducible anti-symmetric representations of $mathfraksl(N)$.

Review text

A MOY graph \(\Gamma\) is an \(N\)-coloured, oriented, trivalent, plane graph. The MOY polynomial \(\langle \Gamma \rangle_N\) is a polynomial invariant of MOY graphs. These two concepts were introduced in [\textit{H. Murakami}, \textit{T. Ohtsuki}, and \textit{S. Yamada}, Enseign. Math., II. Sér. 44, No. 3--4, 325--360 (1998; Zbl 0958.57014)] to give a graphical calculus for the \(\mathfrak{sl}(N)\) quantum invariant (or the HOMFLY-PT polynomial). For a MOY graph \(\Gamma\), \textit{A. Lobb} and \textit{R. Zentner}, in [``The quantum \(\mathrm{sl}(N)\) graph invariant and a moduli space, \url{arXiv:1204.5372}], introduced a moduli space \(\mathcal{M}(\Gamma)\) of colourings of \(\Gamma\) by associating an element of the complex Grassmannian \(\mathbb{G}(i,N)\) to an \(i\)-coloured edge of \(\Gamma\). It was shown in that paper that if \(\Gamma\) is \(2\)-coloured, then its MOY polynomial evaluated at 1 is the Euler characteristic of the moduli space, \(\chi(\mathcal{M}(\Gamma))=\langle \Gamma \rangle_N(1)\); and it was shown how \(\mathcal{M}(\Gamma)\) can be thought of as a representation variety. The paper under review extends these two results from \(2\)-coloured MOY graphs to \(N\)-coloured MOY graphs.

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