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V. Mishnyakov

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Perturbative analysis of the colored Alexander polynomial and KP soliton $τ$-functions

In this paper we study the group theoretic structures of colored HOMFLY polynomials in a specific limit. The group structures arise in the perturbative expansion of $SU(N)$ Chern-Simons Wilson loops, while the limit is $N \rightarrow 0$. The result of the paper is twofold. First, we explain the emergence of Kadomsev-Petviashvily (KP) $τ$-functions. This result is an extension of what we did in arXiv:1805.02761, where a symbolic correspondence between KP equations and group factors was established. In this paper we prove that integrability of the colored Alexander polynomial is due to it's relation to soliton $τ$-functions. Mainly, the colored Alexander polynomial is embedded in the action of the KP generating function on the soliton $τ$-function. Secondly, we use this correspondence to provide a rather simple combinatoric description of the group factors in term of Young diagrams, which is otherwise described in terms of chord diagrams, where no simple description is known. This is a first step providing an explicit description of the group theoretic data of Wilson loops, which would effectively reduce them to a purely topological quantity, mainly to a collection of Vassiliev invariants.

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A new symmetry of the colored Alexander polynomial

We present a new conjectural symmetry of the colored Alexander polynomial, that is the specialization of the quantum $\mathfrak{sl}_N$ invariant widely known as the colored HOMFLY-PT polynomial. We provide arguments in support of the existence of the symmetry by studying the loop expansion and the character expansion of the colored HOMFLY-PT polynomial. We study the constraints this symmetry imposes on the group theoretic structure of the loop expansion and provide solutions to those constraints. The symmetry is a powerful tool for research on polynomial knot invariants and in the end we suggest several possible applications of the symmetry.

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A novel symmetry of colored HOMFLY polynomials coming from $\mathfrak{sl}(N|M)$ superalgebras

We present a novel symmetry of the colored HOMFLY polynomial. It relates pairs of polynomials colored by different representations at specific values of $N$ and generalizes the previously known "tug-the-hook" symmetry of the colored Alexander polynomial. As we show, the symmetry has a superalgebra origin, which we discuss qualitatively. Our main focus are the constraints that such a property imposes on the general group-theoretical structure, namely the $\mathfrak{sl}(N)$ weight system, arising in the perturbative expansion of the invariant. Finally, we demonstrate its tight relation to the eigenvalue conjecture.

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Colored Alexander polynomials and KP hierarchy

We discuss the relation between knot polynomials and the KP hierarchy. Mainly, we study the scaling 1-hook property of the coloured Alexander polynomial: $\mathcal{A}^\mathcal{K}_R(q)=\mathcal{A}^\mathcal{K}_{[1]}(q^{\vert R\vert})$ for all 1-hook Young diagrams $R$. Via the Kontsevich construction, it is reformulated as a system of linear equations. It appears that the solutions of this system induce the KP equations in the Hirota form. The Alexander polynomial is a specialization of the HOMFLY polynomial, and it is a kind of a dual to the double scaling limit, which gives the special polynomial, in the sense that, while the special polynomials provide solutions to the KP hierarchy, the Alexander polynomials provide the equations of this hierarchy. This gives a new connection with integrable properties of knot polynomials and puts an interesting question about the way the KP hierarchy is encoded in the full HOMFLY polynomial.

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