Plabic links, quivers, and skein relations

Galashin, Pavel; Lam, Thomas

doi:10.5802/alco.345

Galashin, Pavel ¹; Lam, Thomas ²

¹ Department of Mathematics University of California Los Angeles 520 Portola Plaza Los Angeles CA 90025 USA
² Department of Mathematics University of Michigan 2074 East Hall 530 Church Street Ann Arbor MI 48109-1043 USA

Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 7 (2024) no. 2, pp. 431-474.

Abstract

We study relations between cluster algebra invariants and link invariants.

First, we show that several constructions of positroid links (permutation links, Richardson links, grid diagram links, plabic graph links) give rise to isotopic links. For a subclass of permutations arising from concave curves, we also provide isotopies with the corresponding Coxeter links.

Second, we associate a point count polynomial to an arbitrary locally acyclic quiver. We conjecture an equality between the top $a$ -degree coefficient of the HOMFLY polynomial of a plabic graph link and the point count polynomial of its planar dual quiver. We prove this conjecture for leaf recurrent plabic graphs, which includes reduced plabic graphs and plabic fences as special cases.

Received: 2023-03-11
Revised: 2023-11-01
Accepted: 2023-11-06
Published online: 2024-04-29

DOI: 10.5802/alco.345

Classification: 13F60, 57K14, 14M15, 05E99
Keywords: plabic graph, quiver, link isotopy, Coxeter link, point count, HOMFLY polynomial, skein relation

Author's affiliations:

Galashin, Pavel ¹; Lam, Thomas ²

¹ Department of Mathematics University of California Los Angeles 520 Portola Plaza Los Angeles CA 90025 USA
² Department of Mathematics University of Michigan 2074 East Hall 530 Church Street Ann Arbor MI 48109-1043 USA

License:

CC-BY 4.0

Copyrights: The authors retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights

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Galashin, Pavel; Lam, Thomas. Plabic links, quivers, and skein relations. Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 7 (2024) no. 2, pp. 431-474. doi : 10.5802/alco.345. https://alco.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/alco.345/

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