Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 16 (2020), 017, 33 pages      arXiv:1908.08978      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2020.017
Contribution to the Special Issue on Algebra, Topology, and Dynamics in Interaction in honor of Dmitry Fuchs

Legendrian DGA Representations and the Colored Kauffman Polynomial

Justin Murray a and Dan Rutherford b
a)  Department of Mathematics, 303 Lockett Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4918, USA
b)  Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University, 2000 W. University Ave., Muncie, IN 47306, USA

Received August 28, 2019, in final form March 10, 2020; Published online March 22, 2020

Abstract
For any Legendrian knot $K$ in standard contact ${\mathbb R}^3$ we relate counts of ungraded ($1$-graded) representations of the Legendrian contact homology DG-algebra $(\mathcal{A}(K),\partial)$ with the $n$-colored Kauffman polynomial. To do this, we introduce an ungraded $n$-colored ruling polynomial, $R^1_{n,K}(q)$, as a linear combination of reduced ruling polynomials of positive permutation braids and show that (i) $R^1_{n,K}(q)$ arises as a specialization $F_{n,K}(a,q)\big|_{a^{-1}=0}$ of the $n$-colored Kauffman polynomial and (ii) when $q$ is a power of two $R^1_{n,K}(q)$ agrees with the total ungraded representation number, $\operatorname{Rep}_1\big(K, \mathbb{F}_q^n\big)$, which is a normalized count of $n$-dimensional representations of $(\mathcal{A}(K),\partial)$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. This complements results from [Leverson C., Rutherford D., Quantum Topol. 11 (2020), 55-118] concerning the colored HOMFLY-PT polynomial, $m$-graded representation numbers, and $m$-graded ruling polynomials with $m \neq 1$.

Key words: Legendrian knots; Kauffman polynomial; ruling polynomial; augmentations.

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