AN ALGORITHM TO COMPUTE THE KAUFFMAN POLYNOMIAL OF 2-BRIDGE KNOTS

被引:3
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作者
Lu, Bin [1 ]
Zhong, Jianyuan K. [1 ]
机构
[1] Calif State Univ Sacramento, Dept Math & Stat, Sacramento, CA 95819 USA
关键词
Kauffman skein modules; relative skein modules; Kauffman polynomials; rational knots;
D O I
10.1216/RMJ-2010-40-3-977
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
The 2-bridge knots are a family of knots with bridge number 2 [1, 13]. In this paper, we compute the Kauffman polynomial of 2-bridge knots using the Kauffman skein theory and linear algebraic techniques. Our calculation can be easily carried out using Mathematica, Maple, Mathcad, etc.
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页码:977 / 993
页数:17
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