English

On a state model for the SO(2n) Kauffman polynomial

Geometric Topology 2015-04-01 v1

Abstract

F. Jaeger presented the two-variable Kauffman polynomial of an unoriented link L as a weighted sum of HOMFLY-PT polynomials of oriented links associated with L. Murakami, Ohtsuki and Yamada (MOY) used planar graphs and a recursive evaluation of these graphs to construct a state model for the sl(n)-link invariant (a one-variable specialization of the HOMFLY-PT polynomial). We apply the MOY framework to Jaeger's work, and construct a state summation model for the SO(2n) Kauffman polynomial.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1304.4665,
  title  = {On a state model for the SO(2n) Kauffman polynomial},
  author = {Carmen Caprau and David Heywood and Dionne Ibarra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4665},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages, many figures

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