On the defect and stability of differential expansion
Ya. Kononov+, A. Morozov
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI", 15409 Moscow 1, Russia
Institute for Information Transmission Problems, 127994 Moscow, Russia
+Higher School of Economics, Math Department, 117312 Moscow, Russia
Abstract
Empirical analysis of many colored knot polynomials,
made possible by recent computational advances in Chern-Simons theory,
reveals their stability: for any given negative N and any given knot the
set of coefficients of the polynomial in r-th symmetric representation
does not change with r, if it is large enough.
This fact reflects the non-trivial and previously unknown properties
of the differential expansion,
and it turns out that from this point of view there are universality classes
of knots, characterized by a single integer, which we call
defect, and which is in fact related to the power of Alexander
polynomial.