Topological notions for Kauffman and Vogel's polynomial

DOI10.1142/S0218216503002317zbMATH Open1030.57018arXivmath/0204207OpenAlexW2013694238MaRDI QIDQ4414976FDOQ4414976

Authors: Rui Pedro Carpentier 

Publication date: 16 February 2004

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

Abstract: In [2] Kauffman and Vogel constructed a rigid vertex regular isotopy invariant for unoriented four-valent graphs embedded in three dimensional space. It assigns to each embedded graph G a polynomial, denoted [G], in three variables, A, B and a, satisfying three skein relations, and is defined in terms of a state-sum and the Dubrovnik polynomial for links. In previous work by the author it is proved, in the case B=A^{-1} and a=A, that for a planar graph G we have [G]=2^{c-1}(-A-A^{-1})^v, where c is the number of connected components of G and v is the number of vertices of G. In this paper we will show how we can calculate the polynomial for embedded graphs, with the variables B=A^{-1} and a=A, without resorting to the skein relation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204207

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calculationknot invariantKauffman polynomial

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