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We propose a new method for numerical calculation of link plynomials for knots given in 3 dimensions. We calculate derivatives of the Jones polynomial in a computational time proportional to $N^{\alpha}$ with respect to the system size $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Tetsuo Deguchi , Kyoichi Tsurusaki

In a recent paper Jones introduced a correspondence between elements of the Thompson group $F$ and certain graphs/links. It follows from his work that several polynomial invariants of links, such as the Kauffman bracket, can be…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Valeriano Aiello , Roberto Conti

In this article the discovery of the Jones Polynomial will be discussed, emphasizing the way in which it illustrated the remarkable unity between distinct parts of Mathematics, each with its own language, but initially without a dictionary.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Joan S. Birman

In the present paper, we build a bridge between Conway-Coxeter friezes and rational tangles through the Kauffman bracket polynomials. One can compute a Kauffman bracket polynomials attached to rational links by using Conway-Coxeter friezes.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Takeyoshi Kogiso , Michihisa Wakui

We analyze relationships between quantum computation and a family of generalizations of the Jones polynomial. Extending recent work by Aharonov et al., we give efficient quantum circuits for implementing the unitary Jones-Wenzl…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Pawel Wocjan , Jon Yard

Trivalent plane graphs are used in various areas of mathematics which relate for instance to the colored Jones polynomial, invariants of 3-manifolds and quantum computation. Their evaluation is based on computations in the Temperley-Lieb…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-01-11 Claire Isabelle Levaillant

In this paper, a method is given to calculate the Jones polynomial of the 6-plat presentations of knots by using a representation of the braid group $\mathbb{B}_6$ into a group of $5\times 5$ matrices. We also can calculate the Jones…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Bo-hyun Kwon

We prove an explicit cabling formula for the colored Jones polynomial. As an application we prove the volume conjecture for all zero volume knots and links, i.e. all knots and links that are obtained from the unknot by repeated cabling and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-07-18 Roland van der Veen

It has been argued based on electric-magnetic duality that the Jones polynomial of a knot in three dimensions can be computed by counting the solutions of certain gauge theory equations in four-dimension. And the Euler characteristic of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Jing Zhou , Jialun Ping

The motivation for this work was to construct a nontrivial knot with trivial Jones polynomial. Although that open problem has not yielded, the methods are useful for other problems in the theory of knot polynomials. The subject of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard P. Anstee , Jozef H. Przytycki , Dale Rolfsen

We derive new formulas for the Jones polynomial and the Kauffman bracket polynomial of a rational link represented by a standard diagram that is not necessarily alternating. These formulas generalize the results of Qazaqzeh, Yasein, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Yuanan Diao , Gábor Hetyei

It is well a known and fundamental result that the Jones polynomial can be expressed as Potts and vertex partition functions of signed plane graphs. Here we consider constructions of the Jones polynomial as state models of unsigned graphs…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Iain Moffatt

A link is almost alternating if it is non-alternating and has a diagram that can be transformed into an alternating diagram via one crossing change. We give formulas for the first two and last two potential coefficients of the Jones…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Adam M. Lowrance , Dean Spyropoulos

This paper introduces a new algebra, the crossing algebra, that is applied to count the number of components for arborescent knots, links, tangles or states (of a state polynomial expansion such as the Kauffman bracket). This algebra is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Louis H Kauffman

The Jones unknot conjecture states that the Jones polynomial distinguishes the unknot from nontrivial knots. We prove it for knots up to 23 crossings.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-09-10 Robert E. Tuzun , Adam S. Sikora

We consider hyperbolic links that admit alternating projections on surfaces in compact, irreducible 3-manifolds. We show that, under some mild hypotheses, the volume of the complement of such a link is bounded below in terms of a Kauffman…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Brandon Bavier , Efstratia Kalfagianni

In this note, we compute the cyclotomic expansion formula for colored Jones polynomial of double twist knots with an odd number of half-twists $\mathcal{K}_{p,\frac{s}{2}}$ by using the Kauffman bracket skein theory. It answers a question…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Qingtao Chen , Kefeng Liu , Shengmao Zhu

We proved by computer enumeration that the Jones polynomial distinguishes the unknot for knots up to 22 crossings. Following an approach of Yamada, we generated knot diagrams by inserting algebraic tangles into Conway polyhedra, computed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Robert E. Tuzun , Adam S. Sikora

We identify the Atkin polynomials in terms of associated Jacobi polynomials. Our identificationthen takes advantage of the theory of orthogonal polynomials and their asymptotics to establish many new properties of the Atkin polynomials.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Ahmad El-Guindy , Mourad E. H. Ismail

An elementary introduction to Khovanov construction of superpolynomials. Despite its technical complexity, this method remains the only source of a definition of superpolynomials from the first principles and therefore is important for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 V. Dolotin , A. Morozov