State Surfaces of Links

MaRDI QIDQ5000916zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Efstratia Kalfagianni

Publication date 15 July 2021

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05281

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: State surfaces are spanning surfaces of links that are obtained from link diagrams guided by the combinatorics underlying Kauffman's construction of the Jones polynomial via state models. Geometric properties of such surfaces are often dictated by simple link diagrammatic criteria, and the surfaces themselves carry important information about geometric structures of link complements. State surfaces also provide a tool for studying relations between Jones polynomials and topological invariants, such as the crosscap number or invariants coming from geometric structures on link complements (e.g. hyperbolic volume). This article is brief survey on some of the recent applications of state surfaces.

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