Legendrian DGA Representations and the Colored Kauffman Polynomial

For any Legendrian knot 𝛫 in standard contact ℝ³, we relate counts of ungraded (1-graded) representations of the Legendrian contact homology DG-algebra (A(𝛫), ∂) with the n-colored Kauffman polynomial. To do this, we introduce an ungraded n-colored ruling polynomial, R¹ₙ, 𝛫(q), as a linear combinati...

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Hauptverfasser: Murray, Justin, Rutherford, Dan
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Legendrian DGA Representations and the Colored Kauffman Polynomial. Justin Murray and Dan Rutherford. SIGMA 16 (2020), 017, 33 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53D42; 57M27
arXiv:1908.08978
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/210593
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2020.017
For any Legendrian knot 𝛫 in standard contact ℝ³, we relate counts of ungraded (1-graded) representations of the Legendrian contact homology DG-algebra (A(𝛫), ∂) with the n-colored Kauffman polynomial. To do this, we introduce an ungraded n-colored ruling polynomial, R¹ₙ, 𝛫(q), as a linear combination of reduced ruling polynomials of positive permutation braids and show that (i) R¹ₙ, 𝛫(q) arises as a specialization 𝘍ₙ, 𝛫(a, q)∣ₐ⁻¹₌₀ of the n-colored Kauffman polynomial and (ii) when q is a power of two R¹ₙ, 𝛫(q) agrees with the total ungraded representation number, Rep₁(𝛫, 𝔽ⁿq), which is a normalized count of n-dimensional representations of (A(𝛫),∂) over the finite field 𝔽q. This complements results from [Leverson C., Rutherford D., Quantum Topol. 11 (2020), 55-118] concerning the colored HOMFLY-PT polynomial, m-graded representation numbers, and m-graded ruling polynomials with m≠1.
This article is dedicated to Dmitry Fuchs, to whom the second author is grateful for his generosity and support through the years in grad school and beyond. Thank you, Dmitry! DR acknowledges support from the Simons Foundation grant #429536.
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Інститут математики НАН України
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Legendrian DGA Representations and the Colored Kauffman Polynomial
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title_short Legendrian DGA Representations and the Colored Kauffman Polynomial
title_full Legendrian DGA Representations and the Colored Kauffman Polynomial
title_fullStr Legendrian DGA Representations and the Colored Kauffman Polynomial
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description For any Legendrian knot 𝛫 in standard contact ℝ³, we relate counts of ungraded (1-graded) representations of the Legendrian contact homology DG-algebra (A(𝛫), ∂) with the n-colored Kauffman polynomial. To do this, we introduce an ungraded n-colored ruling polynomial, R¹ₙ, 𝛫(q), as a linear combination of reduced ruling polynomials of positive permutation braids and show that (i) R¹ₙ, 𝛫(q) arises as a specialization 𝘍ₙ, 𝛫(a, q)∣ₐ⁻¹₌₀ of the n-colored Kauffman polynomial and (ii) when q is a power of two R¹ₙ, 𝛫(q) agrees with the total ungraded representation number, Rep₁(𝛫, 𝔽ⁿq), which is a normalized count of n-dimensional representations of (A(𝛫),∂) over the finite field 𝔽q. This complements results from [Leverson C., Rutherford D., Quantum Topol. 11 (2020), 55-118] concerning the colored HOMFLY-PT polynomial, m-graded representation numbers, and m-graded ruling polynomials with m≠1.
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