Distinguishing Mutant knots

Jul 24, 2020
30 pages
Published in:
  • J.Geom.Phys. 159 (2021) 103928
  • Published: Sep 12, 2020
    and
  • Published: Jan, 2021
e-Print:
Report number:
  • FIAN/TD-12/20; IITP/TH-09/20; ITEP/TH-12/20; MIPT/TH-09/20

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Abstract: (Elsevier B.V.)
Knot theory is actively studied both by physicists and mathematicians as it provides a connecting centerpiece for many physical and mathematical theories. One of the challenging problems in knot theory is distinguishing mutant knots. Mutant knots are not distinguished by colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials for knots colored by either symmetric and or antisymmetric representations of SU(N). Some of the mutant knots can be distinguished by the simplest non-symmetric representation [2,1]. However there is a class of mutant knots which require more complex representations like [4,2]. In this paper we calculate polynomials and differences for the mutant knot polynomials in representations [3,1] and [4,2] and study their properties.
Note:
  • 22 pages + 3 Appendices
  • Chern–Simons theory
  • Knot theory
  • Mutant knots
  • HOMFLY-PT polynomials
  • knot theory
  • Chern-Simons term
  • representation: SU(N)
  • R-matrix
  • quantum group
  • braid group