On the skein polynomial for links
Geometric Topology
2024-07-09 v1
Abstract
We give characterizations of the skein polynomial for links (as well as Jones and Alexander-Conway polynomials derivable from it), avoiding the usual "smoothing of a crossing" move. As by-products we have characterizations of these polynomials for knots, and for links with any given number of components.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.00070,
title = {On the skein polynomial for links},
author = {Boju Jiang and Jiajun Wang and Hao Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00070},
year = {2024}
}