QUANTUM SUPERGROUPS, LINK POLYNOMIALS AND REPRESENTATION OF THE BRAID GENERATOR

Source abstract

Unlike the quantum group case, it is shown that the braid generator σ is not always diagonalizable on V ⊗ V, V an irreducible module for a quantum supergroup. Nevertheless a generalization of the Reshetikhin form of the braid generator, obtained previously for quantum groups, is determined corresponding to every finite dimensional standard cyclic module V of a quantum supergroup. This result is applied to obtain a general closed formula for link polynomials arising from standard cyclic modules of a quantum supergroup belonging to a certain class. As explicit examples we determine link polynomials corresponding to the rank 2 symmetric tensor representation of U q [gl(m|m)] and the defining representation of U q [osp(2n|2n)].