Some evaluations of Jones polynomials for certain families of weaving knots

Abstract: In this paper, we derive formulae for the determinant of weaving knots

W (3, n)

and

W (p, 2)

. We calculate the dimension of the first homology group with coefficients in

m a t h b b Z_{3}

of the double cyclic cover of the

3

-sphere

S^{3}

branched over

W (3, n)

and

W (p, 2)

respectively. As a consequence, we obtain a lower bound of the unknotting number of

W (3, n)

for certain values of

n

.

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