Spin models, association schemes and the Nakanishi--Montesinos conjecture

DOI10.1006/EUJC.2000.0461MaRDI QIDQ1864597zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pierre Manchess, Stéphan Ceroi

Publication date 18 March 2003

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/eujc.2000.0461

zbMATH Keywords

3-transformationsBoser-Mesner algebralink invariantNakanishi-Montesinos conjectureNM-spin model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Association schemes, strongly regular graphs (05E30)

Review text

The Nakanishi-Montesinos (NM) conjecture asserts that any link can be reduced to an unknotted collection of unknots by performing 3-transformations. The authors introduce the notion of the NM-spin model, which gives a link invariant preserved by 3-transformations and prove that the Boser-Mesner algebra generated by the spin model is less or equals 4. It is proved that for dimensions 1 and 2 there is no such spin model but for dimension 3 there exists a unique one for which the link invariant corresponds to a specialization of the Kauffman polynomial but does not distinguish trivial links from non-trivials ones (hence it cannot disprove the NM conjecture). A family of NM-spin models are given for dimension 4. A number of proofs are omitted but they can be found in \textit{S. Ceroi} and \textit{P. Manches} [Spin models, association schemes and the Nakanishi-Montesinos conjecture, Technical Report 99-149, LIRMM 161 rue Ada 34392 Montpellier, France October 1999].

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