On Conway's potential function for colored links

DOI10.1007/S10114-015-4428-9MaRDI QIDQ256402zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Boju Jiang

Publication date 9 March 2016

Published in Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3081

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialcolored linksConway potential functionskein relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Abstract: The Conway potential function (CPF) for colored links is a convenient version of the multi-variable Alexander-Conway polynomial. We give a skein characterization of CPF, much simpler than the one by Murakami. In particular, Conway's `smoothing of crossings' is not in the axioms. The proof uses a reduction scheme in a twisted group-algebra $mathbb{P}_n{B}_n$, where $B_n$ is a braid group and $mathbb{P}_n$ is a domain of multi-variable rational fractions. The proof does not use computer algebra tools. An interesting by-product is a characterization of the Alexander-Conway polynomial of knots.

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