Relations among the lowest degree of the Jones polynomial and geometric invariants for a closed positive braid
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Relations among the lowest degree of the Jones polynomial and geometric invariants for a closed positive braid
zbMATH Open document ID: 0991.57006
author: Tomomi Kawamura
published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici
publication date: 2002-06-17T00:00:00Z
review text: The Jones polynomial is an ambient isotopy invariant of oriented links which can be defined easily by skein relations. This invariant introduced by Jones in 1984, takes its values in the ring \(\mathbb Z[v^{\pm 1/2}]\). If \(L\) is an oriented link with \(r\) components, we define the unknotting number of \(L\), \(u(L)\), as the minimal number of crossing changes needed to create the trivial link with \(r\) components. The main result in the paper under review is a relationship between the lowest degree of the Jones polynomial \(V(L,t)\) and the unknotting number of \(L\). More precisely, it is shown that if \(L\) is a closed positive braid link with \(r\) components then the lowest degree of \(V(L,t)\) is equal to the unknotting number \(u(L)\) minus \(\frac{r-1}{2}\). Furthermore, relationships between the lowest degree of \(V(L,t)\) and the slice Euler characteristic are obtained.
reviewed by: Nafaa Chbili
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M25
zbMATH DE Number: 1756813
zbMATH Keywords: unknotting number
zbMATH Keywords: four-dimensional clasp number
zbMATH Keywords: slice Euler characteristic
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: s00014-002-8333-3
OpenAlex ID: W2061747564
DOI: 10.1007/S00014-002-8333-3
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