The Jones polynomial from a Goeritz matrix

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12753MaRDI QIDQ6096745zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 15 September 2023

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03082

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Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Knot polynomials (57K14)

Abstract: We give an explicit algorithm for calculating the Kauffman bracket of a link diagram from a Goeritz matrix for that link. Further, we show how the Jones polynomial can be recovered from a Goeritz matrix when the corresponding checkerboard surface is orientable, or when more information is known about its Gordon-Litherland form. In the process we develop a theory of Goeritz matrices for cographic matroids, which extends the bracket polynomial to any symmetric integer matrix. We place this work in the context of links in thickened surfaces.

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