Knot homologies and generalized quiver partition functions

Abstract

AbstractWe introduce generalized quiver partition functions of a knot K and conjecture a relation to generating functions of symmetrically colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials and corresponding HOMFLY-PT homology Poincaré polynomials. We interpret quiver nodes as certain basic holomorphic disks in the resolved conifold, with boundary on the knot conormal $$L_K$$ L K , a positive multiple of a unique closed geodesic, and with their (infinitesimal) boundary linking density measured by the adjacency matrix of the generalized quiver. The basic holomorphic disks that are quiver nodes appear in a certain U(1)-symmetric configuration. We propose an extension of the quiver partition function to arbitrary, not U(1)-symmetric, configurations as a function with values in chain complexes. The chain complex differential is trivial at the U(1)-symmetric configuration, under deformations the complex changes, but its homology remains invariant. We also study recursion relations for the partition functions connected to knot homologies. We show that, after a suitable change of variables, any (generalized) quiver partition function satisfies the recursion relation of a single toric brane in $${\mathbb {C}}^3$$ C 3 .