The Jones polynomial for a torus knot with twists
Geometric Topology
2023-08-02 v1
Abstract
We compute the Jones polynomial for a three-parameter family of links, the twisted torus links of the form where and are coprime and is nonzero. When , these links are the twisted torus knots . We show that for , the Jones polynomial is trivial if and only if the knot is trivial.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2308.00502,
title = {The Jones polynomial for a torus knot with twists},
author = {Brandon Bavier and Brandy Doleshal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00502},
year = {2023}
}
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23 pages, 4 figures