Integrality conjecture for reformulated colored Kauffman invariants of links

Let L{\cal L} be an unoriented link with LL components, colored by representations R1,,RLR_1,\ldots,R_L. Let h^R1,,RL(t,ν)\hat h_{R_1,\ldots,R_L}(t,\nu) and g^R1,,RL(t,ν)\hat g_{R_1,\ldots,R_L}(t,\nu) be the reformulated colored Kauffman invariants, and set z=tt1z=t-t^{-1}. Kauffman integrality conjecture for links. There are integers NR1,,RL;g,Qc=0N^{c=0}_{R_1,\ldots,R_L;g,Q}, NR1,,RL;g,Qc=1N^{c=1}_{R_1,\ldots,R_L;g,Q} and NR1,,RL;g,Qc=2N^{c=2}_{R_1,\ldots,R_L;g,Q} such that

h^R1,,RL(t,ν)zL2Z[z2,ν±1],g^R1,,RL(t,ν)zL1Z[z,ν±1],\hat h_{R_1,\ldots,R_L}(t,\nu)\in z^{L-2}{\mathbb Z}[z^2,\nu^{\pm1}],\qquad \hat g_{R_1,\ldots,R_L}(t,\nu)\in z^{L-1}{\mathbb Z}[z,\nu^{\pm1}],

with

h^R1,,RL(t,ν)=zL2g0QZNR1,,RL;g,Qc=0z2gνQ,\hat h_{R_1,\ldots,R_L}(t,\nu)=z^{L-2}\sum_{g\geq0}\sum_{Q\in{\mathbb Z}}N^{c=0}_{R_1,\ldots,R_L;g,Q}z^{2g}\nu^Q, g^R1,,RL(t,ν)=zL1g0QZ(NR1,,RL;g,Qc=1z2gνQ+NR1,,RL;g,Qc=2z2g+1νQ).\hat g_{R_1,\ldots,R_L}(t,\nu)=z^{L-1}\sum_{g\geq0}\sum_{Q\in{\mathbb Z}}\left(N^{c=1}_{R_1,\ldots,R_L;g,Q}z^{2g}\nu^Q+N^{c=2}_{R_1,\ldots,R_L;g,Q}z^{2g+1}\nu^Q\right).

This extends the knot-level Kauffman integrality prediction to unoriented links, where the reformulated invariants involve Kauffman invariants together with HOMFLY invariants for all choices of orientations.

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

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