ON RACK POLYNOMIALS

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (06) ◽  
pp. 1221-1232
Author(s):  
TIM CARRELL ◽  
SAM NELSON

We study rack polynomials and the link invariants they define. We show that constant action racks are classified by their generalized rack polynomials and show that nsata-quandles are not classified by their generalized quandle polynomials. We use subrack polynomials to define enhanced rack counting invariants, generalizing the quandle polynomial invariants.

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 1279-1301
Author(s):  
N. AIZAWA ◽  
M. HARADA ◽  
M. KAWAGUCHI ◽  
E. OTSUKI

All polynomial invariants of links for two dimensional solutions of Yang–Baxter equation is constructed by employing Turaev's method. As a consequence, it is proved that the best invariant so constructed is the Jones polynomial and there exist three solutions connecting to the Alexander polynomial. Invariants for higher dimensional solutions, obtained by the so-called dressings, are also investigated. It is observed that the dressings do not improve link invariant unless some restrictions are put on dressed solutions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (02) ◽  
pp. 1950006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeriano Aiello ◽  
Roberto Conti

In a recent paper, Jones introduced a correspondence between elements of the Thompson group [Formula: see text] and certain graphs/links. It follows from his work that several polynomial invariants of links, such as the Kauffman bracket, can be reinterpreted as coefficients of certain unitary representations of [Formula: see text]. We give a somewhat different and elementary proof of this fact for the Kauffman bracket evaluated at certain roots of unity by means of a statistical mechanics model interpretation. Moreover, by similar methods we show that, for some particular specializations of the variables, other familiar link invariants and graph polynomials, namely the number of [Formula: see text]-colorings and the Tutte polynomial, can be viewed as positive definite functions on [Formula: see text].


2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 173-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. F. Labastida ◽  
Marcos Mariño

Recent progress in string theory has led to a reformulation of quantum-group polynomial invariants for knots and links into new polynomial invariants whose coefficients can be understood in topological terms. We describe in detail how to construct the new polynomials and we conjecture their general structure. This leads to new conjectures on the algebraic structure of the quantum-group polynomial invariants. We also describe the geometrical meaning of the coefficients in terms of the enumerative geometry of Riemann surfaces with boundaries in a certain Calabi-Yau threefold.


2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Nelson

AbstractWe define a family of generalizations of the two-variable quandle polynomial. These polynomial invariants generalize in a natural way to eight-variable polynomial invariants of finite biquandles. We use these polynomials to define a family of link invariants that further generalize the quandle counting invariant.


2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (08) ◽  
pp. 1131-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
VASSILY O. MANTUROV

We construct new invariant polynomials in two and multiple variables for virtual knots and links. They are defined as determinants of Alexander-like matrices whose determinants are virtual link invariants. These polynomials vanish on classical links. In some cases, they separate links that can not be separated by the Jones–Kauffman polynomial [Kau] and the polynomial proposed in [Ma3].


2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 1750081
Author(s):  
Sang Youl Lee

In this paper, we introduce a notion of virtual marked graphs and their equivalence and then define polynomial invariants for virtual marked graphs using invariants for virtual links. We also formulate a way how to define the ideal coset invariants for virtual surface-links using the polynomial invariants for virtual marked graphs. Examining this theory with the Kauffman bracket polynomial, we establish a natural extension of the Kauffman bracket polynomial to virtual marked graphs and found the ideal coset invariant for virtual surface-links using the extended Kauffman bracket polynomial.


2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (01) ◽  
pp. 1250126 ◽  
Author(s):  
SEUNG-MOON HONG

We consider two approaches to isotopy invariants of oriented links: one from ribbon categories and the other from generalized Yang–Baxter (gYB) operators with appropriate enhancements. The gYB-operators we consider are obtained from so-called gYBE objects following a procedure of Kitaev and Wang. We show that the enhancement of these gYB-operators is canonically related to the twist structure in ribbon categories from which the operators are produced. If a gYB-operator is obtained from a ribbon category, it is reasonable to expect that two approaches would result in the same invariant. We prove that indeed the two link invariants are the same after normalizations. As examples, we study a new family of gYB-operators which is obtained from the ribbon fusion categories SO (N)2, where N is an odd integer. These operators are given by 8 × 8 matrices with the parameter N and the link invariants are specializations of the two-variable Kauffman polynomial invariant F.


1991 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. Morton ◽  
P. Strickland

AbstractResults of Kirillov and Reshetikhin on constructing invariants of framed links from the quantum group SU(2)q are adapted to give a simple formula relating the invariants for a satellite link to those of the companion and pattern links used in its construction. The special case of parallel links is treated first. It is shown as a consequence that any SU(2)q-invariant of a link L is a linear combination of Jones polynomials of parallels of L, where the combination is determined explicitly from the representation ring of SU(2). As a simple illustration Yamada's relation between the Jones polynomial of the 2-parallel of L and an evaluation of Kauffman's polynomial for sublinks of L is deduced.


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