The Hilbert scheme of a plane curve singularity and the \textsc{HOMFLY} homology of its link

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Abstract: We conjecture an expression for the dimensions of the Khovanov-Rozansky HOMFLY homology groups of the link of a plane curve singularity in terms of the weight polynomials of Hilbert schemes of points scheme-theoretically supported on the singularity. The conjecture specializes to our previous conjecture relating the HOMFLY polynomial to the Euler numbers of the same spaces upon setting t = -1. By generalizing results of Piontkowski on the structure of compactified Jacobians to the case of Hilbert schemes of points, we give an explicit prediction of the HOMFLY homology of a (k, n) torus knot as a certain sum over diagrams. The Hilbert scheme series corresponding to the summand of the HOMFLY homology with minimal "a" grading can be recovered from the perverse filtration on the cohomology of the compactified Jacobian. In the case of (k,n) torus knots, this space furnishes the unique finite dimensional simple representation of the rational spherical Cherednik algebra with central character k/n. Up to a conjectural identification of the perverse filtration with a previously introduced filtration, the work of Haiman and Gordon and Stafford gives formulas for the Hilbert scheme series when k = mn + 1.


The authors formulate a conjecture relating the Poincaré polynomial \(\overline{\mathcal P}(q,a,t)\) of the triply graded (unreduced) Khovanov-Rozansky HOMFLY homologies of an algebraic link to an other series involving the weight polynomials of certain Hilbert schemes of points supported on the corresponding complex plane curve singularity. Denoting the latter series by \(\overline{\mathcal P}_{\mathrm{alg}}(q,a,t)\), the conjectured identity \(\overline{\mathcal P}(q,a,t) = \overline{\mathcal P}_{\mathrm{alg}}(q,a,t)\) setting \(t = -1\) specializes to an earlier conjecture of \textit{A. Oblomkov} and \textit{V. Shende} [Duke Math. J. 161, No. 7, 1277--1303 (2012; Zbl 1256.14025)] relating the HOMFLY polynomial of an algebraic link to a series with coefficients being the Euler characteristics of the above Hilbert scheme spaces associated to the corresponding plane curve singularity. Several results are proved to support the proposed conjecture. The first is a statement about the structure of \(\overline{\mathcal P}_{\mathrm{alg}}(q,a,t)\) in terms of the number of branches, the arithmetic genus and the multiplicity of the singularity. A symmetry property with respect to the variable change \(t \mapsto 1/qt\) is also proved. It is also discussed that the lowest \(a\)-degree part \(\overline{\mathcal P}_{\mathrm{alg}}^{\min}\) of \(\overline{\mathcal P}_{\mathrm{alg}}(q,a,t)\) can be computed from the compactified Jacobian of the singularity. Next, some explicit formulas are proved for \(\overline{\mathcal P}_{\mathrm{alg}}\) in the case of algebraic torus knots, through a stratification of the Hilbert scheme type moduli space corresponding to these singularities. The limiting case \((n,\infty)\) of the \((n,k)\) torus knot results matches the formula for the stable superpolynomial of torus knots conjectured in [\textit{N. M. Dunfield} et al., Exp. Math. 15, No. 2, 129--159 (2006; Zbl 1118.57012)]. In the \((n, mn+1)\) torus knot case, a further conjectural formula (based on a conjecturally identical stratification) is proposed using Cherednik algebras expressing the lowest \(a\)-degree part \(\overline{\mathcal P}_{\mathrm{alg}}^{\min}\) (and, as explained further in [\textit{E. Gorsky} et al., Duke Math. J. 163, No. 14, 2709--2794 (2014; Zbl 1318.57010)], even the entire \(\overline{\mathcal P}_{\mathrm{alg}}\)) in terms of an expression involving partitions of \(n\). The Appendix by E. Gorsky relates the Hilbert scheme stratification of torus knot type plane curve singularities to the combinatorics of diagonal harmonics and DAHA representations, justifying some conjectures involving \((q,t)\)-Catalan numbers from \textit{E. A. Gorsky} [Contemp. Math. 566, 213--232 (2012; Zbl 1294.57007)].



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