The noncommutative A-polynomial of (-2,3,n) pretzel knots

DOI10.1080/10586458.2012.651409zbMATH Open1255.57012arXiv1101.2844OpenAlexW3100316786MaRDI QIDQ5200344FDOQ5200344

Stavros Garoufalidis, Christoph Koutschan

Publication date: 5 November 2012

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study q-holonomic sequences that arise as the colored Jones polynomial of knots in 3-space. The minimal-order recurrence for such a sequence is called the (non-commutative) A-polynomial of a knot. Using the "method of guessing", we obtain this polynomial explicitly for the K_p = (-2, 3, 3+2p) pretzel knots for p = -5, ..., 5. This is a particularly interesting family since the pairs (K_p, -K_{-p}) are geometrically similar (in particular, scissors congruent) with similar character varieties. Our computation of the non-commutative A-polynomial (a) complements the computation of the A-polynomial of the pretzel knots done by the first author and Mattman, (b) supports the AJ Conjecture for knots with reducible A-polynomial and (c) numerically computes the Kashaev invariant of pretzel knots in linear time. In a later publication, we will use the numerical computation of the Kashaev invariant to numerically verify the Volume Conjecture for the above mentioned pretzel knots.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2844

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zbMATH Keywords

knotscolored Jones polynomialvolume conjectureKashaev invariantpretzel knotsquantum topology\(q\)-holonomic sequencesrecurrence idealnoncommutative \(A\)-polynomial

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• Quantum knot invariants
• A generalisation of the deformation variety
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• The A-polynomial from the noncommutative viewpoint
• A diagrammatic approach to the AJ conjecture
• The \(C\)-polynomial of a knot

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