Irreducibility of q-difference operators and the knot 7_4

DOI10.2140/AGT.2013.13.3261MaRDI QIDQ373635zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stavros Garoufalidis, Christoph Koutschan

Publication date 18 October 2013

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

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

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)

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.

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