HOMFLY polynomial

In the mathematical field of knot theory, the HOMFLY polynomial or HOMFLYPT polynomial, sometimes called the generalized Jones polynomial, is a 2-variable knot polynomial, i.e. a knot invariant in the form of a polynomial of variables m and l.

A central question in the mathematical theory of knots is whether two knot diagrams represent the same knot. One tool used to answer such questions is a knot polynomial, which is computed from a diagram of the knot and can be shown to be an invariant of the knot, i.e. diagrams representing the same knot have the same polynomial. The converse may not be true. The HOMFLY polynomial is one such invariant and it generalizes two polynomials previously discovered, the Alexander polynomial and the Jones polynomial, both of which can be obtained by appropriate substitutions from HOMFLY. The HOMFLY polynomial is also a quantum invariant.

The name HOMFLY combines the initials of its co-discoverers: Jim Hoste, Adrian Ocneanu, Kenneth Millett, Peter J. Freyd, W. B. R. Lickorish, and David N. Yetter.^[1] The addition of PT recognizes independent work carried out by Józef H. Przytycki and Paweł Traczyk.^[2]

Definition

The polynomial is defined using skein relations:

P(\mathrm {unknot} )=1,\,

\ell P(L_{+})+\ell ^{-1}P(L_{-})+mP(L_{0})=0,\,

where $L_{+},L_{-},L_{0}$ are links formed by crossing and smoothing changes on a local region of a link diagram, as indicated in the figure.

The HOMFLY polynomial of a link L that is a split union of two links $L_{1}$ and $L_{2}$ is given by

P(L)={\frac {-(\ell +\ell ^{-1})}{m}}P(L_{1})P(L_{2}).

See the page on skein relation for an example of a computation using such relations.

Other HOMFLY skein relations

This polynomial can be obtained also using other skein relations:

\alpha P(L_{+})-\alpha ^{-1}P(L_{-})=zP(L_{0}),\,

xP(L_{+})+yP(L_{-})+zP(L_{0})=0,\,

Main properties

P(L_{1}\#L_{2})=P(L_{1})P(L_{2}),\,

, where # denotes the knot sum; thus the HOMFLY polynomial of a composite knot is the product of the HOMFLY polynomials of its components.

P_{K}(\ell ,m)=P_{{\text{Mirror Image}}(K)}(\ell ^{-1},m)

, so the HOMFLY polynomial can often be used to distinguish between two knots of different chirality. However there exist chiral pairs of knots that have the same HOMFLY polynomial, e.g. knots 9₄₂ and 10₇₁ together with their respective mirror images.^[3]

The Jones polynomial, V(t), and the Alexander polynomial, $\Delta (t)\,$ can be computed in terms of the HOMFLY polynomial (the version in $\alpha$ and $z$ variables) as follows:

V(t)=P(\alpha =t^{-1},z=t^{1/2}-t^{-1/2}),\,

\Delta (t)=P(\alpha =1,z=t^{1/2}-t^{-1/2}),\,

References

^ Freyd, P.; Yetter, D.; Hoste, J.; Lickorish, W.B.R.; Millett, K.; Ocneanu, A. (1985). "A New Polynomial Invariant of Knots and Links". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 12 (2): 239–246. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1985-15361-3.
^ Józef H. Przytycki; .Paweł Traczyk (1987). "Invariants of Links of Conway Type". Kobe J. Math. 4: 115–139. arXiv:1610.06679.
^ Ramadevi, P.; Govindarajan, T.R.; Kaul, R.K. (1994). "Chirality of Knots 942 and 1071 and Chern-Simons Theory". Modern Physics Letters A. 09 (34): 3205–3217. arXiv:hep-th/9401095. Bibcode:1994MPLA....9.3205R. doi:10.1142/S0217732394003026. S2CID 119143024.

External links

"Jones-Conway polynomial", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994]
Weisstein, Eric W. "HOMFLY Polynomial". MathWorld.
"The HOMFLY-PT Polynomial", The Knot Atlas.

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