Knots and tropical curves

MaRDI QIDQ3172631zbMATHFDO

Authors Stavros Garoufalidis

Publication date 5 October 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4436

zbMATH Keywords

quantizationtropicalizationtropical geometryJones polynomialsNewton polygontropical curveJones slopenon-commutative A-polynomialSlope ConjectureA-polynomialtwist knotsKnotsAJ ConjectureBSP states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized hypergeometric series, ({}_pF_q) (33C20)

Abstract: Using elementary ideas from Tropical Geometry, we assign a a tropical curve to every $q$-holonomic sequence of rational functions. In particular, we assign a tropical curve to every knot which is determined by the Jones polynomial of the knot and its parallels. The topical curve explains the relation between the AJ Conjecture and the Slope Conjecture (which relate the Jones polynomial of a knot and its parallels to the $SL(2,BC)$ character variety and to slopes of incompressible surfaces). Our discussion predicts that the tropical curve is dual to a Newton subdivision of the $A$-polynomial of the knot. We compute explicitly the tropical curve for the $4_1$, $5_2$ and $6_1$ knots and verify the above prediction.

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