Resurgent analysis for some 3-manifold invariants

We study resurgence for some 3-manifold invariants when Gℂ = SL(2, ℂ). We discuss the case of an infinite family of Seifert manifolds for general roots of unity and the case of the torus knot complement in S3. Via resurgent analysis, we see that the contribution from the abelian flat connections to the analytically continued Chern-Simons partition function contains the information of all non-abelian flat connections, so it can be regarded as a full partition function of the analytically continued Chern-Simons theory on 3-manifolds M3. In particular, this directly indicates that the homological block for the torus knot complement in S3 is an analytic continuation of the full G = SU(2) partition function, i.e. the colored Jones polynomial.

Twisted torus knots T(mn + m + 1,mn + 1,mn + m + 2,−1) and T(n + 1,n,2n − 1,−1) are torus knots

A twisted torus knot [Formula: see text] is a torus knot [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] adjacent strands twisted fully [Formula: see text] times. In this paper, we determine the braid index of the knot [Formula: see text] when the parameters [Formula: see text] satisfy [Formula: see text]. If the last parameter [Formula: see text] additionally satisfies [Formula: see text], then we also determine the parameters [Formula: see text] for which [Formula: see text] is a torus knot.

Zero Set Structure of Real Analytic Beltrami Fields

In this paper, we prove a classification theorem for the zero sets of real analytic Beltrami fields. Namely, we show that the zero set of a real analytic Beltrami field on a real analytic, connected 3-manifold without boundary is either empty after removing its isolated points or can be written as a countable, locally finite union of differentiably embedded, connected 1-dimensional submanifolds with (possibly empty) boundary and tame knots. Further, we consider the question of how complicated these tame knots can possibly be. To this end, we prove that on the standard (open) solid toroidal annulus in $${\mathbb {R}}^3$$ R 3 , there exist for any pair (p, q) of positive, coprime integers countable infinitely many distinct real analytic metrics such that for each such metric, there exists a real analytic Beltrami field, corresponding to the eigenvalue $$+1$$ + 1 of the curl operator, whose zero set is precisely given by a standard (p, q)-torus knot. The metrics and the corresponding Beltrami fields are constructed explicitly and can be written down in Cartesian coordinates by means of elementary functions alone.

Dichromatic polynomial for graph of a (2,n)-torus knot

In this study, we introduce the relationship between the Tutte polynomials and dichromatic polynomials of (2,n)-torus knots. For this aim, firstly we obtain the signed graph of a (2,n)-torus knot, marked with {+} signs, via the regular diagram of its. Whereupon, we compute the Tutte polynomial for this graph and find a generalization through these calculations. Finally we obtain dichromatic polynomial lying under the unmarked states of the signed graph of the (2,n)-torus knots by the generalization.

TIGHT FIBRED KNOTS WITHOUT L-SPACE SURGERIES

We show that there exist infinitely many knots of every fixed genus $g\geq 2$ which do not admit surgery to an L-space, despite resembling algebraic knots and L-space knots in general: they are algebraically concordant to the torus knot T(2, 2g + 1) of the same genus and they are fibred and strongly quasipositive.

Chiral smoothings of knots

Can smoothing a single crossing in a diagram for a knot convert it into a diagram of the knot's mirror image? Zeković found such a smoothing for the torus knot T(2, 5), and Moore–Vazquez proved that such smoothings do not exist for other torus knots T(2, m) with m odd and square free. The existence of such a smoothing implies that K # K bounds a Mobius band in B4. We use Casson–Gordon theory to provide new obstructions to the existence of such chiral smoothings. In particular, we remove the constraint that m be square free in the Moore–Vazquez theorem, with the exception of m = 9, which remains an open case. Heegaard Floer theory provides further obstructions; these do not give new information in the case of torus knots of the form T(2, m), but they do provide strong constraints for other families of torus knots. A more general question asks, for each pair of knots K and J, what is the minimum number of smoothings that are required to convert a diagram of K into one for J. The methods presented here can be applied to provide lower bounds on this number.

Twisted torus knots T(p,q,p − kq,−1) which are torus knots

A twisted torus knot is a torus knot with some consecutive strands twisted. More precisely, a twisted torus knot [Formula: see text] is a torus knot [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] consecutive strands [Formula: see text] times fully twisted. We determine which twisted torus knots [Formula: see text] are a torus knot.