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Given a knot $K$ and a generic slope $r$, we study the Kauffman bracket skein module (KBSM) $S(E_K (r) , \mathbb{Q} (A))$ of the Dehn filling $E_K (r)$ of slope $r$ along $K$, assuming that the KBSM $S(E_K , \mathbb{Q} [A^{\pm 1}])$ of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Edwin Kitaeff

We show that the head and tail functions of the colored Jones polynomial of adequate links are the product of head and tail functions of the colored Jones polynomial of alternating links that can be read-off an adequate diagram of the link.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Oliver T. Dasbach , Cody Armond

Using Chebyshev polynomials, C. Frohman and R. Gelca introduce a basis of the Kauffman bracket skein module of the torus. This basis is especially useful because the Jones-Kauffman product can be described via a very simple Product-to-Sum…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Hoel Queffelec , Heather M. Russell

We study skein modules using $Sp(2n)$ webs. We define multivariable analogues of Chebyshev polynomials in the Type $C$ setting and use them to construct transparent elements in the skein module at roots of unity. Our arguments are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Vijay Higgins , Haihan Wu

The differential expansion is one of the key structures reflecting group theory properties of colored knot polynomials, which also becomes an important tool for evaluation of non-trivial Racah matrices. This makes highly desirable its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-30 C. Bai , J. Jiang , J. Liang , A. Mironov , A. Morozov , An. Morozov , A. Sleptsov

We determine the structure of the Kauffman bracket skein module of the connected sum of two genus one handlebodies over the ring of Laurent polynomials $\mathbb Z[q^{\pm 1}]$, thereby proving a conjecture posed by the first and third…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Rhea Palak Bakshi , Thang T. Q. Lê , Józef H. Przytycki

We prove a finiteness property of the values of the skein polynomial of homogeneous knots which allows to establish large classes of such knots to have arbitrarily unsharp Bennequin inequality (for the Thurston-Bennequin invariant of any of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-08-30 A. Stoimenow

We calculate limits of the colored Jones polynomials of the figure-eight knot and conclude that in most cases they determine the volumes and the Chern--Simons invariants of the three-manifolds obtained by Dehn surgeries along it.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-07 Hitoshi Murakami , Yoshiyuki Yokota

In this paper the properties of the Kauffman bracket skein module of $L(p,q)$ are investigated. Links in lens spaces are represented both through band and disk diagrams. The possibility to transform between the diagrams enables us to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Boštjan Gabrovšek , Enrico Manfredi

This expository essay is aimed at introducing the Jones polynomial. We will see the encapsulation of the Jones polynomial, which will involve topics in functional analysis and geometrical topology; making this essay an interdisciplinary…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Monica Queen

We develop a dimer model for the Alexander polynomial of a knot. This recovers Kauffman's state sum model for the Alexander polynomial using the language of dimers. By providing some additional structure we are able to extend this model to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-14 Moshe Cohen , Oliver T. Dasbach , Heather M. Russell

We obtain a family of skein identities in the Kauffman bracket skein module which relate Frobenius elements to Jones-Wenzl projectors at roots of unity. We view these skein identities as certain incarnations of Steinberg tensor product…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Vijay Higgins , Indraneel Tambe

Splint of root system of simple Lie algebra appears naturally in the study of (regular) embeddings of reductive subalgebras. It can be used to derive branching rules. Application of splint properties drastically simplifies calculations of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Vladimir Laykhovsky , Anton Nazarov

Many structures in science, engineering, and art can be viewed as curves in 3-space. The entanglement of these curves plays a crucial role in determining the functionality and physical properties of materials. Many concepts in knot theory…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Ruzhi Song , Fengling Li , Jie Wu , Fengchun Lei , Guo-Wei Wei

We enhance the psyquandle counting invariant for singular knots and pseudoknots using quivers analogously to quandle coloring quivers. This enables us to extend the in-degree polynomial invariants from quandle coloring quiver theory to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Jose Ceniceros , Anthony Christiana , Sam Nelson

We examine the structure and dimensionality of the Jones polynomial using manifold learning techniques. Our data set consists of more than 10 million knots up to 17 crossings and two other special families up to 2001 crossings. We introduce…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Jesse S F Levitt , Mustafa Hajij , Radmila Sazdanovic

We present experimental results approximating the Jones polynomial using 4 qubits in a liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance quantum information processor. This is the first experimental implementation of a complete problem for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-18 G. Passante , O. Moussa , C. A. Ryan , R. Laflamme

In this manuscript we introduce a method to measure entanglement of curves in 3-space that extends the notion of knot and link polynomials to open curves. We define the bracket polynomial of curves in 3-space and show that it has real…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Eleni Panagiotou , Louis H. Kauffman

In this paper we constructed new q-extension of Bernstein polynomials. Fron those q-Berstein polynomials, we give some interesting properties and we investigate some applications related this q-Bernstein polynomials.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Taekyun Kim

The Slope Conjecture relates a quantum knot invariant, (the degree of the colored Jones polynomial of a knot) with a classical one (boundary slopes of incompressible surfaces in the knot complement). The degree of the colored Jones…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Stavros Garoufalidis , Roland van der Veen