The Jones polynomial and functions of positive type on the oriented Jones-Thompson groups \(\vec{F}\) and \(\vec{T} \) (Q2008148)

In a recent paper [J. Comb. Algebra 1, No. 1, 1--44 (2017; Zbl 1472.57014)], \textit{V. F. R. Jones} introduced the oriented subgroups \(\vec F\) and \(\vec T\) of the Thompson groups \(F\) and \(T\), together with a procedure which associates an oriented link diagram to each element of these subgroups (\(\vec F\) is also isomophic to the Thompson group \(F_3\) defined by using triadic subdivisions, see a paper by \textit{G. Golan} and \textit{M. Sapir} [J. Algebra 470, 122--159 (2017; Zbl 1375.20043)]). Then some specializations of well-known polynomial link invariants can be interpreted as functions of positive type on the Thomson groups or the Jones-Thompson subgroups (e.g., suitable evaluations of the Jones polynomial and the Kauffman bracket can be seen as coefficients of certain unitary representations of the Thompson groups; see the above paper by Jones). Quoting from the authors' abstract: ``Within this framework, we discuss an alternative approach that relies on some partition function interpretation of the Jones polynomial, and also exhibit more examples associated with other link invariants, notably the two-variable Kauffman polynomial and the HOMFLY-polynomial. In the unoriented case, extending our previous results [J. Knot Theory Ramifications 28, No. 2, Article ID 1950006, 17 p. (2019; Zbl 1412.43007)], we also show by similar methods that certain evaluations of the Tutte polynomial and of the Kauffman bracket, suitably renormalized, yield functions of positive type on \(T\).''