Graph polynomials and link invariants as positive type functions on Thompson's group F

DOI10.1142/S0218216519500068MaRDI QIDQ4629313zbMATHWikidataFDO

Authors Valeriano Aiello, Roberto Conti

Publication date 21 March 2019

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04428

zbMATH Keywords

treeschromatic polynomialknotsTutte polynomiallinksThompson groupKauffman bracketfunction of positive typeFox coloringslink coloringsRank polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph polynomials (05C31) Positive definite functions on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A35)

Abstract: In a recent paper Jones introduced a correspondence between elements of the Thompson group $F$ and certain graphs/links. It follows from his work that several polynomial invariants of links, such as the Kauffman bracket, can be reinterpreted as coefficients of certain unitary representations of $F$. We give a somewhat different and elementary proof of this fact for the Kauffman bracket evaluated at certain roots of unity by means of a statistical mechanics model interpretation. Moreover, by similar methods we show that, for some particular specializations of the variables, other familiar link invariants and graph polynomials, namely the number of $N$-colourings and the Tutte polynomial, can be viewed as positive definite functions on $F$.

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