The colored HOMFLY polynomial is q-holonomic

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, December 10, 2012 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Stavros Garoufalidis – Georgia Tech – stavros@math.gatech.eduhttp://www.math.gatech.edu/~stavros
Organizer
Stavros Garoufalidis
I will explain how to construct a 4-variable knot invariant which expresses a recursion for the colored HOMFLY polynomial of a knot, and its implications on (a) asymptotics (b) the SL2 character variety of the knot (c) mirror symmetry.