Genus expansion of HOMFLY polynomials

DOI10.1007/S11232-013-0115-0zbMATH Open1336.57022arXiv1303.1015OpenAlexW3101855431MaRDI QIDQ461552FDOQ461552

Aleksey Morozov, A. V. Sleptsov, A. Mironov

Publication date: 13 October 2014

Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the planar limit of the 't Hooft expansion, the Wilson-loop average in 3d Chern-Simons theory (i.e. the HOMFLY polynomial) depends in a very simple way on representation (the Young diagram), so that the (knot-dependent) Ooguri-Vafa partition function becomes a trivial KP tau-function. We study higher genus corrections to this formula in the form of expansion in powers of z = q-q^{-1}. Expansion coefficients are expressed through the eigenvalues of the cut-and-join operators, i.e. symmetric group characters. Moreover, the z-expansion is naturally exponentiated. Representation through cut-and-join operators makes contact with Hurwitz theory and its sophisticated integrability properties. Our formulas describe the shape of genus expansion for the HOMFLY polynomials, which for their matrix model counterparts is usually controlled by Virasoro like constraints and AMM/EO topological recursion. The genus expansion differs from the better studied weak coupling expansion at finite number of colors N, which is described in terms of the Vassiliev invariants and Kontsevich integral.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1015

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons theoryknot invariant't Hooft expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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