Labastida–Mariño–Ooguri–Vafa integrality conjecture for colored link invariants

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Let L\mathcal{L} be a link with LL components, let P\mathcal{P} be the set of all partitions, and write A⃗=(A1,…,AL)∈PL\vec{A}=(A^{1},\ldots,A^{L})\in\mathcal{P}^{L}. Let fA⃗(q,t)f_{\vec{A}}(q,t) be the coefficients in the plethystic expansion of the Chern–Simons free energy. For any A,B∈PA,B\in\mathcal{P}, define

MAB(q)=∑μχA(Cμ)χB(Cμ)zμ∏j=1ℓ(μ)(q−μj/2−qμj/2).M_{AB}(q)=\sum_{\mu}\frac{\chi_A(C_\mu)\chi_B(C_\mu)}{\mathfrak{z}_\mu}\prod_{j=1}^{\ell(\mu)}(q^{-\mu_j/2}-q^{\mu_j/2}).

Labastida–Mariño–Ooguri–Vafa conjecture. For any A⃗∈PL\vec{A}\in\mathcal{P}^{L}, there exist PB⃗(q,t)P_{\vec{B}}(q,t) for B⃗∈PL\vec{B}\in\mathcal{P}^{L} such that

fA⃗(q,t)=∑∣Bα∣=∣Aα∣PB⃗(q,t)∏α=1LMAαBα(q).f_{\vec{A}}(q,t)=\sum_{|B^\alpha|=|A^\alpha|}P_{\vec{B}}(q,t)\prod_{\alpha=1}^{L}M_{A^\alpha B^\alpha}(q).

Furthermore,

PB⃗(q,t)=∑g=0∞∑Q∈Z/2NB⃗; g,Q(q−1/2−q1/2)2g−2tQ,P_{\vec{B}}(q,t)=\sum_{g=0}^{\infty}\sum_{Q\in\mathbb{Z}/2}N_{\vec{B};\,g,Q}(q^{-1/2}-q^{1/2})^{2g-2}t^{Q},

and NB⃗; g,QN_{\vec{B};\,g,Q} are integers.

This conjecture predicts a nontrivial reformulation of the Chern–Simons free energy in terms of integer invariants, reflecting the duality between Chern–Simons gauge theory and topological string theory. The source does not provide evidence resolving the claim.

References

Primary source

Kefeng Liu and Pan Peng, “On a proof of the Labastida-Marino-Ooguri-Vafa conjecture”, arXiv:1012.2635 (2010).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2010). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0704.1526.

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