Link invariants, the chromatic polynomial and the Potts model

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2010.V14.N2.A4MaRDI QIDQ622296zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paul Fendley, Vyacheslav Krushkal

Publication date 31 January 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3484, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.atmp/1288619151

zbMATH Keywords

Temperley-Lieb algebrachromatic algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: We study the connections between link invariants, the chromatic polynomial, geometric representations of models of statistical mechanics, and their common underlying algebraic structure. We establish a relation between several algebras and their associated combinatorial and topological quantities. In particular, we define the chromatic algebra, whose Markov trace is the chromatic polynomial chi_Q of an associated graph, and we give applications of this new algebraic approach to the combinatorial properties of the chromatic polynomial. In statistical mechanics, this algebra occurs in the low temperature expansion of the Q-state Potts model. We establish a relationship between the chromatic algebra and the SO(3) Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebra, which is an algebra-level analogue of the correspondence between the SO(3) Kauffman polynomial and the chromatic polynomial.

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