Labastida–Mariño–Ooguri–Vafa integrality conjecture for colored HOMFLY invariants of knots

Let K{\cal K} be a knot, let RR be a representation, and let f^R(t,ν)\hat f_R(t,\nu) be the reformulated colored HOMFLY invariant obtained by applying the inverse matrix M1M^{-1} to the reformulated invariant fR(t,ν)f_R(t,\nu). Set z=tt1z=t-t^{-1}. The integers NR;g,QN_{R;g,Q} are indexed by g0g\geq 0 and QZQ\in{\mathbb Z}. Labastida–Mariño–Ooguri–Vafa integrality conjecture. The reformulated invariant satisfies

f^R(t,ν)z1Z[z2,ν±1],\hat f_R(t,\nu)\in z^{-1}{\mathbb Z}[z^2,\nu^{\pm1}],

or equivalently

f^R(t,ν)=z1g0QZNR;g,Qz2gνQ,\hat f_R(t,\nu)=z^{-1}\sum_{g\geq 0}\sum_{Q\in{\mathbb Z}}N_{R;g,Q}z^{2g}\nu^Q,

where the NR;g,QN_{R;g,Q} are integers and only finitely many are nonzero for fixed K{\cal K} and RR. This is the predicted BPS integrality structure for colored HOMFLY invariants; the source notes that the corresponding conjecture had already been proved.

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Marcos Marino, “String theory and the Kauffman polynomial”, arXiv:0904.1088 (2010).

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