Virtual rational tangles

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500340MaRDI QIDQ5118865zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Blake Mellor, Sean Nevin

Publication date 27 August 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12072

zbMATH Keywords

rational tanglesvirtual knotsKauffman's bracket polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12)

Abstract: We use Kauffman's bracket polynomial to define a complex-valued invariant of virtual rational tangles that generalizes the well-known fraction invariant for classical rational tangles. We provide a recursive formula for computing the invariant, and use it to compute several examples.

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