A determinant formula for the Jones polynomial of pretzel knots

DOI10.1142/S0218216512500629MaRDI QIDQ5388113zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Moshe Cohen

Publication date 17 April 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3661

zbMATH Keywords

activity worddimer modelJones polynomialKhovanov homologyknot diagramperfect matchingpretzel knotspanning treeTutte polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Signed and weighted graphs (05C22) Graph polynomials (05C31) Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: This paper presents an algorithm to construct a weighted adjacency matrix of a plane bipartite graph obtained from a pretzel knot diagram. The determinant of this matrix after evaluation is shown to be the Jones polynomial of the pretzel knot by way of perfect matchings (or dimers) of this graph. The weights are Tutte's activity letters that arise because the Jones polynomial is a specialization of the signed version of the Tutte polynomial. The relationship is formalized between the familiar spanning tree setting for the Tait graph and the perfect matchings of the plane bipartite graph above. Evaluations of these activity words are related to the chain complex for the Champanerkar-Kofman spanning tree model of reduced Khovanov homology.

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