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A bracket polynomial for 2-tangle shadows

Combinatorics 2020-02-18 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We compute the Kauffman bracket polynomial of the numerator and denominator closures of A + A + ... + A ( A is repeated n times), where A is a 2-tangle shadow that has at most 4 crossings.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2002.06672,
  title  = {A bracket polynomial for 2-tangle shadows},
  author = {Franck Ramaharo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.06672},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

36 pages, 81 tables, 2 figures, 9 OEIS A-numbers

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