A note on the Lickorish-Millett-Turaev formula for the Kauffman polynomial
Geometric Topology
2012-08-27 v1
Abstract
We use the idea of expressing a nonoriented link as a sum of all oriented links corresponding to the link to present a short proof of the Lickorish-Millett-Turaev formula for the Kauffman polynomial at . Our approach explains the observation made by Lickorish and Millett that the formula is the generating function for the linking number of a sublink of the given link with its complementary sublink.
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@article{arxiv.1208.4900,
title = {A note on the Lickorish-Millett-Turaev formula for the Kauffman polynomial},
author = {Jozef H. Przytycki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.4900},
year = {2012}
}
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5 pages, 4 figures