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The <math>A2</math> invariant attains <!--$all=Join[AllKnots[], AllLinks[]]; Length[Union[A2Invariant[#][q]& /@ all]]$--><!--END--> values on the <!--$Length[all]$--><!--END--> knots and links known to <code>KnotTheory</code>: |
The <math>A2</math> invariant attains <!--$all=Join[AllKnots[], AllLinks[]]; Length[Union[A2Invariant[#][q]& /@ all]]$--><!--Robot Land, no human edits to "END"-->2163<!--END--> values on the <!--$Length[all]$--><!--Robot Land, no human edits to "END"-->2226<!--END--> knots and links known to <code>KnotTheory</code>: |
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Latest revision as of 18:22, 21 February 2013
We compute the (or quantum ) invariant using the normalization and formulas of [Khovanov], which in itself follows [Kuperberg]:
(For In[1] see Setup)
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As an example, let us check that the knots 10_22 and 10_35 have the same Jones polynomial but different invariants:
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Jones[Knot[10, 22]][q] == Jones[Knot[10, 35]][q]
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True
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A2Invariant[Knot[10, 22]][q]
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-12 -8 -6 -4 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
-1 + q + q + q - q + -- - q - 2 q + q - q + q + q +
2
q
18
q
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A2Invariant[Knot[10, 35]][q]
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-14 -12 -10 -8 2 2 2 6 8 10 14 16
q + q - q + q - -- + -- + q - q + q - 2 q + q - q +
4 2
q q
18 20
q + q
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The invariant attains 2163 values on the 2226 knots and links known to KnotTheory:
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all = Join[AllKnots[], AllLinks[]];
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Length /@ {Union[A2Invariant[#][q]& /@ all], all}
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{2163, 2226}
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[Khovanov] ^ M. Khovanov, link homology I, arXiv:math.QA/0304375.
[Kuperberg] ^ G. Kuperberg, Spiders for rank 2 Lie algebras, Comm. Math. Phys. 180 (1996) 109-151, arXiv:q-alg/9712003.
