Homfly polynomials for periodic knots via state model

2018/05/24 by Kim, Joonoh, Kim, Kyoung-Tark
#57M25 #57M27 #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #General Topology (math.GN)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1805.09517

Abstract

We give criteria for oriented links to be periodic of prime order using the quantum SL(N)-invariant. The criteria are based upon an observation on the linking number between a periodic knot and its axis of the rotation.

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