Knot polynomials and generalized mutation
From MaRDI portal
Alexander polynomialsatellitesConway's mutation of knots and linksflipping a many-string tanglenontrivial knotrotantseveral-variable polynomialssignature of linkssymmetric knotstrivial Jones polynomial
Abstract: 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 present paper is a generalization of Conway's mutation of knots and links. Instead of flipping a 2-strand tangle, one flips a many-string tangle to produce a generalized mutant. In the presence of rotational symmetry in that tangle, the result is called a "rotant". We show that if a rotant is sufficiently simple, then its Jones polynomial agrees with that of the original link. As an application, this provides a method of generating many examples of links with the same Jones polynomial, but different Alexander polynomials. Various other knot polynomials, as well as signature, are also invariant under such moves, if one imposes more stringent conditions upon the symmetries. Applications are also given to polynomials of satellites and symmetric knots.
Recommendations
Cites work
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4153482 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4090378 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3530652 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3241098 (Why is no real title available?)
- A Family of Links and the Conway Calculus
- A new polynomial invariant of knots and links
- A polynomial invariant for knots via von Neumann algebras
- A polynomial invariant for unoriented knots and links
- A polynomial invariant of oriented links
- A relationship between link polynomials
- A spanning tree expansion of the Jones polynomial
- Codichromatic graphs
- Equivalence of Cables Of Mutants of Knots
- Invariants of links of Conway type
- Jones polynomials of periodic links
- Knots
- On Knots. (AM-115)
- Polynomials of 2-Cable-Like Links
- Rotors in Graph Theory
- Some Remarks on Rotors in Link Theory
- The dissection of rectangles into squares
- Tutte Polynomials and Link Polynomials
Cited in
(24)- Random knots using Chebyshev billiard table diagrams
- Forty years in mathematics: Personal perspective (Part I)
- ON THE KINOSHITA–TERASAKA KNOT AND GENERALISED CONWAY MUTATION
- Verification of the Jones unknot conjecture up to 22 crossings
- Representations of small braid groups in Temperley-Lieb algebra
- DOES THE JONES POLYNOMIAL DETECT THE UNKNOT?
- Mutation and the colored Jones polynomial
- Mutation of Knots
- A NOTE ON ROTANT LINKS
- Knots and graphs: two centuries of interaction
- Mutation on knots and Whitney's 2-isomorphism theorem
- ANY TANGLE EXTENDS TO NON-MUTANT KNOTS WITH THE SAME JONES POLYNOMIAL
- Automorphisms of trivalent graphs
- Signature of rotors
- Rotation of spatial graphs
- The homfly and the Kauffman bracket polynomials for the generalized mutant of a link
- GLOBAL MUTATION OF KNOTS
- Symplectic structure on colorings, Lagrangian tangles and Tits buildings
- Path-width of a graph vs bridge number of a knot
- Conway polynomial and oriented rotant links
- On Murasugi's and Traczyk's criteria for periodic links
- Does the Jones Polynomial Detect Unknottedness?
- The t3, moves conjecture for oriented links with matched diagrams
- On the first group of the chromatic cohomology of graphs
This page was built for publication: Knot polynomials and generalized mutation
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1099443)
