Polynomials for Torus Links from Chern-Simons Gauge Theories

Details Polynomials for Torus Links from Chern-Simons Gauge Theories Polynomials for Torus Links from Chern-Simons Gauge Theories

1992-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9210124v1

Nucl.Phys. B398 (1993) 187-236

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

50 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(93)90632-Y

Invariant polynomials for torus links are obtained in the framework of the Chern-Simons topological gauge theory. The polynomials are computed as vacuum expectation values on the three-sphere of Wilson line operators representing the Verlinde algebra of the corresponding rational conformal field theory. In the case of the $SU(2)$ gauge theory our results provide explicit expressions for the Jones polynomial as well as for the polynomials associated to the $N$-state ($N>2$) vertex models (Akutsu-Wadati polynomials). By means of the Chern-Simons coset construction, the minimal unitary models are analyzed, showing that the corresponding link invariants factorize into two $SU(2)$ polynomials. A method to obtain skein rules from the Chern-Simons knot operators is developed. This procedure yields the eigenvalues of the braiding matrix of the corresponding conformal field theory.

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