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→0. The result of the paper is twofold. First, we explain the emergence of Kadomse...

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Main Authors: V. Mishnyakov, A. Sleptsov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-04-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321321000316
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Summary: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→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 [1], 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.
ISSN:0550-3213