FUNCTORS EXTENDING THE KAUFFMAN BRACKET

DOI10.1142/S0218216509007282MaRDI QIDQ3398335zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors John Armstrong

Publication date 28 September 2009

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609607

zbMATH Keywords

category representationKauffman bracketquantum computationtangle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract: In this article we extend evaluations of the Kauffman bracket on regular isotopy classes of knots and links to a variety of functors defined on the category of framed tangles. We show that many such functors exist, and that they correspond up to equivalence to bilinear forms on free, finitely-generated modules over commutative rings.

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