Polyak-Viro formulas for coefficients of the Conway polynomial
Geometric Topology
2008-10-20 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
We describe the Polyak-Viro arrow diagram formulas for the coefficients of the Conway polynomial. As a consequence, we obtain the Conway polynomial as a state sum over some subsets of the crossings of the knot diagram. It turns out to be a simplification of a special case of Jaeger's state model for the HOMFLY polynomial.
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@article{arxiv.0810.3146,
title = {Polyak-Viro formulas for coefficients of the Conway polynomial},
author = {Sergei Chmutov and Michael Cap Khoury and Alfred Rossi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3146},
year = {2008}
}
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9 pages, many figures