Reshetikhin’s formula for the Jones polynomial of a link: Feynman diagrams and Milnor’s linking numbers

DOI10.1063/1.530749MaRDI QIDQ4327237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lev Rozansky

Publication date 5 April 1995

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9403020

zbMATH Keywords

colored Jones polynomialFeynman diagramsflat connections in the link complementJones polynomial of a linklinking numbersMassey productstationary phase approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: We use Feynman diagrams to prove a formula for the Jones polynomial of a link derived recently by N.~Reshetikhin. This formula presents the colored Jones polynomial as an integral over the coadjoint orbits corresponding to the representations assigned to the link components. The large $k$ limit of the integral can be calculated with the help of the stationary phase approximation. The Feynman rules allow us to express the phase in terms of integrals over the manifold and the link components. Its stationary points correspond to flat connections in the link complement. We conjecture a relation between the dominant part of the phase and Milnor's linking numbers. We check it explicitly for the triple and quartic numbers by comparing their expression through the Massey product with Feynman diagram integrals.

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