On ambiguity in knot polynomials for virtual knots

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.03.085zbMATH Open1360.57018arXiv1511.08242OpenAlexW2256978434MaRDI QIDQ526193FDOQ526193

Andrey Morozov, Alexander Popolitov, Aleksey Morozov

Publication date: 10 May 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We claim that HOMFLY polynomials for virtual knots, defined with the help of the matrix-model recursion relations, contain more parameters, than just the usual $q$ and $A=q^N$. These parameters preserve topological invariance and do not show up in the case of ordinary (non-virtual) knots and links. They are most conveniently observed in the hypercube formalism: then they substitute $q$-dimensions of certain fat graphs, which are not constrained by recursion and can be chosen arbitrarily. The number of these new topological invariants seems to grow fast with the number of non-virtual crossings: 0, 1, 1, 5, 15, 91, 784, 9160, ... This number can be decreased by imposing the factorization requirement for composites, in addition to topological invariance -- still freedom remains. None of these new parameters, however, appear in HOMFLY for Kishino unknot, which thus remains unseparated from the ordinary unknots even by this enriched set of knot invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08242

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