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A new polynomial criterion for periodic knots

Geometric Topology 2022-07-19 v2

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a new periodicity criterion. For that purpose, we study the HOMFLY-PT polynomial and the Kauffman polynomial of cables of periodic links. Furthermore, we exhibit a couple of examples for which our criterion is stronger than many previously know criteria, among which is the Khovanov homology criterion of Borodzik and the second author.

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@article{arxiv.2004.03525,
  title  = {A new polynomial criterion for periodic knots},
  author = {Maciej Markiewicz and Wojciech Politarczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03525},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures; corrected references and made minor wording changes and clarifications

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