Knot contact homology and representations of knot groups

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTU016zbMATH Open1312.57013arXiv1303.4943OpenAlexW1991274038MaRDI QIDQ2934815FDOQ2934815

Christopher R. Cornwell

Publication date: 22 December 2014

Published in: Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study certain linear representations of the knot group that induce augmentations of knot contact homology. This perspective on augmentations enhances our understanding of the relationship between the augmentation polynomial and the A-polynomial of the knot. For example, we show that for 2-bridge knots the polynomials agree and that this is never the case for (non-2-bridge) torus knots, nor for a family of 3-bridge pretzel knots. In addition, we obtain a lower bound on the meridional rank of the knot. As a consequence, our results give another proof that torus knots and a family of pretzel knots have meridional rank equal to their bridge number.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4943

zbMATH Keywords

knot\(A\)-polynomialknot contact homologyaugmentation polynomial

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• Dubois torsion, \(A\)-polynomial and quantum invariants
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• A Topological Introduction to Knot Contact Homology
• \(\Delta\)-groupoids in knot theory
• Meridional rank and bridge number for a class of links
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