Irreducibility of q-difference operators and the knot 7_4

DOI10.2140/AGT.2013.13.3261zbMATH Open1311.57017arXiv1211.6020OpenAlexW3101880361MaRDI QIDQ373635FDOQ373635

Authors: Stavros Garoufalidis, Christoph Koutschan 

Publication date: 18 October 2013

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

Abstract: Our goal is to compute the minimal-order recurrence of the colored Jones polynomial of the 7_4 knot, as well as for the first four double twist knots. As a corollary, we verify the AJ Conjecture for the simplest knot 7_4 with reducible non-abelian SL(2,C) character variety. To achieve our goal, we use symbolic summation techniques of Zeilberger's holonomic systems approach and an irreducibility criterion for q-difference operators. For the latter we use an improved version of the qHyper algorithm of Abramov-Paule-Petkovsek to show that a given q-difference operator has no linear right factors. En route, we introduce exterior power Adams operations on the ring of bivariate polynomials and on the corresponding affine curves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6020

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zbMATH Keywords

colored Jones polynomial\(q\)-holonomic sequencedouble twist knotsnon-commutative A-polynomialthe AJ conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Difference equations, scaling ((q)-differences) (39A13) Symbolic computation of special functions (Gosper and Zeilberger algorithms, etc.) (33F10)

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Uses Software

• qZeil
• HolonomicFunctions
• SF
• Knot Atlas

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