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View SchemaUniversal weight systems and the Melvin-Morton expansion of the colored Jones knot invariant
| Authors | Arkady Vaintrob |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | q-alg/9605003 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9605003 |
Abstract
We study the asymptotic expansion of the colored Jones polynomial (the Melvin-Morton expansion) using a recursion formula for the deframed universal weight system for the $sl(2)$ Lie algebra. Combined with the formula for the universal weight system for the Lie superalgebra $gl(1|1)$ (which corresponds to the Alexander-Conway knot polynomial) this formula gives a very short proof of the Melvin-Morton conjecture relating the colored Jones invariant and the Alexander-Conway polynomial of knots.
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