The power conjecture for colored HOMFLY homology of rational knots and links

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Let LL be a rational knot or link. For each jj, let P~j(L)(a,Q,t)\tilde{P}_j(L)(a,Q,t) denote the Poincaré polynomial of reduced triply graded Λj\Lambda^j-colored HOMFLY homology with a corrected QQ-grading, and let Pj(L)(a,q,t)P_j(L)(a,q,t) denote the ordinary Poincaré polynomial.

Power conjecture. There exists a corrected QQ-grading such that

P~j(L)(a,Q,t)=(P~1(L)(a,Q,t))j.\tilde{P}_j(L)(a,Q,t)=\bigl(\tilde{P}_1(L)(a,Q,t)\bigr)^j.

In particular,

Pj(L)(a,1,t)=(P1(L)(a,1,t))j.P_j(L)(a,1,t)=\bigl(P_1(L)(a,1,t)\bigr)^j.

The conjecture asserts that higher-color homologies of rational knots and links are governed by powers of the uncolored homology. The supplied text gives no evidence of resolution, so its status remains open.

References

Primary source

Paul Wedrich, “Categorified sl(N) invariants of colored rational tangles”, arXiv:1404.2736 (2014).

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