
q-deformed rational number hr
si♯
qis exactly q-deformed rational number hr
siqconsidered by
Morier-Genoud and Ovsienko. Following [15] and [2], the right q-deformed rational numbers
can be expressed by the right q-deformed regular or negative continued fraction expansions, and
the left q-deformed rational numbers can be expressed by the left q-deformed regular continued
fraction expansions. These q-deformations of the fractions are rational expressions in the variable
qwith integer coefficients. Such as [15, 12], and so on, it may be more convenient from the
perspective of the negative continued fraction expansion when we consider some properties of left
and right q-deformed rational numbers and their applications. In particular, the formula for the
right q-deformed Farey sum based on the negative continued fraction is more concise [15, Section
2]. This induces us to consider the q-deformed Farey sum of the left q-deformed rational numbers.
In the present paper, we define the left q-deformed negative continued fraction expansion. Then
we give a formula for computing the q-deformed Farey sum of the left q-deformed rational
numbers based on negative continued fraction (see Theorem 3.3).
As an application of the right q-deformed rational numbers, given a rational number r
s, we
can use the numerator and denominator of hr
si♯
qto represent the Jones polynomial of the rational
knot to which r
scorresponds [15, Proposition A.1]. On the other hand, Bapat, Becker and Licata
prove that the Jones polynomial for the rational knot corresponding to r
scan be represented by
just the numerator of hr
si♭
q[2, Theorem A.3] by considering a homological interpretation of hr
si♭
q
and hr
si♯
q. Considering the zigzag algebra on the A2quiver, we can obtain a triangulated category
C2called 2-Calabi–Yau category associated to the A2quiver [2, Section 4]. For spherical objects
on C2, Bapat, Becker and Licata defined two functions, denoted as occqand homq, and they
proved that hr
si♭
qand hr
si♯
qcan be expressed in terms of occqand homq, respectively [2, Theorems
3.7 and 3.8]. There are two questions worth considering. Can we give a combinatorial proof of
[2, Theorem A.2] without homology techniques? Can we give a homological interpretation of the
q-deformed irrational numbers defined in [16]? In the present paper, we apply Theorem 3.3 to
give a combinatorial proof of [2, Theorem A.3] without using homology techniques (see Theorem
4.2). Then, we combine the homological interpretation of the left and right q-deformed rational
numbers and the q-deformed Farey sum, and give a homological interpretation of the q-deformed
Farey sum (see Propositions 5.13 and 5.14). We also apply the results in [2, Theorems 4.7 and
4.8] to real quadratic irrational numbers with periodic type (see Theorem 5.15).
This paper is organized into the following sections. In Section 2, we first recall some defini-
tions related to the left and right q-deformed rational numbers, including the (right) q-deformed
Euler continuants, which were introduced by Morier-Genoud and Ovsienko [15]. Similarly, we
define the left q-deformed negative continued fractions and left q-deformed Euler continuants.
We prove that the left q-deformed negative continued fractions and the left q-deformed regular
continued fractions are equal. In Section 3, we give q-deformed Farey sum of left q-rational num-
2