Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We prove the rectangular cyclotomic expansion conjecture of Kameyama, Nawata, Tao, and Zhang for reduced colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials of arbitrary zero-framed knots. We also prove their explicit double-twist formula for every rectangular color and all pairs of nonzero integer twist parameters. For each knot, we construct a double Newton expansion with coefficients in $\mathbb Z[A^{\pm1},q^{\pm1}]$. These coefficients are uniquely determined and independent of the width and height of the rectangular color. The construction uses finite-rank representation symmetries and integral interpolation. The double-twist formula follows from a simultaneous exterior-power comparison of the two four-point Casimir operators and the known one-row formula. Finite transition formulas express the double Newton coefficients of double-twist knots in terms of the prescribed twist coefficients.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Fang, Honghuai, Zhou, Tian
Institutions: Peking University, Westlake University
Language: English
Subfield: Geometry and Topology
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G1666994247
OpenAlex ID: W7215785483