Factors of HOMFLY polynomials
Geometric Topology
2020-06-26 v1 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We study factorizations of HOMFLY polynomials of certain knots and oriented links. We begin with a computer analysis of knots with at most 12 crossings, finding 17 non-trivial factorizations. Next, we give an irreducibility criterion for HOMFLY polynomials of oriented links associated to 2-connected plane graphs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.14311,
title = {Factors of HOMFLY polynomials},
author = {Douglas Blackwell and Damiano Testa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.14311},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
7 pages, no figures