On the HOMFLY and Tutte polynomials
Combinatorics
2008-06-30 v2
Abstract
A celebrated result of F. Jaeger states that the Tutte polynomial of a planar graph is determined by the HOMFLY polynomial of an associated link. Here we are interested in the converse of this result. We consider the question `to what extent does the Tutte polynomial determine the HOMFLY polynomial of any knot?' We show that the HOMFLY polynomial of a knot is determined by Tutte polynomials of plane graphs associated to the knot.
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@article{arxiv.0704.0644,
title = {On the HOMFLY and Tutte polynomials},
author = {Iain Moffatt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0644},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
This paper has been withdrawn due to an error in Lemma 8