Knots, (extremal) A-polynomials, and BPS invariants

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• Piotr Kucharski (University of Warsaw)
• Tuesday 11 April 2017, 13:30-14:30
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

Co-author: Piotr Sulkowski (University of Warsaw, Caltech)

In this talk I will introduce a new class of algebraic curves called extremal A-polynomials of a knot and use it to describe BPS invariants introduced by Labastida, Marino, Ooguri, and Vafa.

I will present results obtained from the analysis of both classical and quantum extremal A-polynomials. The first lead to exact formulas for BPS invariants imposing nontrivial integrality statements in number theory. The latter enabled us to construct the combinatorial model for calculating BPS invariants.

I will also indicate how these results relate to the formalism of quivers introduced in the talk by Piotr Sulkowski.

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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