Fifth Yang–Baxter homology conjecture for the HOMFLYPT operator

Let R(m)R_{(m)} be the level-mm Yang–Baxter operator yielding the HOMFLYPT polynomial, and let k=Z[y2]k=\mathbb{Z}[y^2]. The notation (m1j)\binom{m-1}{j} denotes a binomial coefficient. Fifth-homology conjecture.

H5(R(m))kj=05(m1j)(k1y2)(13(m11)+124(m12)+323(m13)+332(m14)+119(m15))(k1y4)(7(m11)+16(m12)+12(m13)+4(m14)).\begin{aligned} H_5(R_{(m)})&\cong k^{\oplus\sum_{j=0}^{5}\binom{m-1}{j}}\\ &\oplus\left(\frac{k}{1-y^2}\right)^{\oplus\left(13\binom{m-1}{1}+124\binom{m-1}{2}+323\binom{m-1}{3}+332\binom{m-1}{4}+119\binom{m-1}{5}\right)}\\ &\oplus\left(\frac{k}{1-y^4}\right)^{\oplus\left(7\binom{m-1}{1}+16\binom{m-1}{2}+12\binom{m-1}{3}+4\binom{m-1}{4}\right)}. \end{aligned}

The formula is extrapolated from explicit computations of lower-level chain complexes and is presented as a computational conjecture; no proof or resolution is supplied in the source.

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Anthony Christiana, Ben Clingenpeel, Huizheng Guo, Jinseok Oh, Jozef H. Przytycki, Xiao Wang and Hongdae Yun, “Low Dimensional Homology of the Yang-Baxter Operators Yielding the HOMFLYPT Polynomial”, arXiv:2502.20659 (2025).

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