Remarks on Khovanov Homology and the Potts Model

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2009-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/0907.3178v2

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Geometric Topology

24 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX document

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This paper is dedicated to Oleg Viro on his 60-th birthday. The paper is about Khovanov homology and its relationships with statistical mechanics models such as the Ising model and the Potts model. We give a relatively self-contained introduction to Khovanov homology, and also a reformulation of the Potts model in terms of a bracket state sum expansion on a knot diagram K(G) related to a planar graph G via the medial construction. We consider the original Khovanov homology and also the homology defined by Stosic via the dichromatic polynomial, and examine those values of the Potts model where the partition function can be expressed in terms of homological Euler characteristics. These points occur at imaginary temperature. The last part of the paper reformulates, via a Wick rotation, the Potts model at imaginary temperature as a quantum amplitude and uses the same formalism to give a new quantum algorithm for the Jones polynomial for values of the variable that lie on the unit circle in the complex plane.

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