Tutte and Jones polynomials of link families

2009

This article contains general formulas for Tutte and Jones polynomial for families of knots and links given in Conway notation. * The Conway notation is called unreduced if in symbols of polyhedral links elementary tangles 1 in single vertices are not omitted.

2010

This article contains general formulas for the Tutte and Jones polynomials of families of knots and links given in Conway notation and the corresponding plots of zeroes for the Jones polynomials.

2011

This paper contains general formulae for the reduced relative Tutte, Kauffman bracket and Jones polynomials of families of virtual knots and links given in Conway notation and discussion of a counterexample to the Z-move conjecture of Fenn, Kauffman and Manturov.

International Mathematical Forum, 2008

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004

In this paper, we define a family of links which are similar to but more complex than pretzel links. We compute the exact expressions of the Jones polynomials for this family of links. Motivated by the connection with the Potts model in statistical mechanics, we investigate accumulation points of zeros of the Jones polynomials for some subfamilies.

Advances in Mathematics, 2006

We study relationships between the colored Jones polynomial and the A-polynomial of a knot. The AJ conjecture (of Garoufalidis) that relates the colored Jones polynomial and the A-polynomial is established for a large class of two-bridge knots, including all twist knots. We formulate a weaker conjecture and prove that it holds for all two-bridge knots. Along the way we also calculate the Kauffman bracket skein module of the complements of two-bridge knots. Some properties of the colored Jones polynomial are established.

Asian journal of natural and applied sciences, 2013

In this paper, we give some specializations and evaluations of the Tutte polynomial of a family of positive-signed connected planar graphs. First of all, we give the general form of the Tutte polynomial of the family of graphs using directly the deletion-contraction definition of the Tutte polynomial. Then, we give general formulas of Jones polynomials of very interesting families of alternating knots and links that correspond to these planar graphs; we actually specialize the Tutte polynomial to the Jones polynomial with the change of variables, and and with some factor of . In case of twocomponent links, we get two different formulas of the Jones polynomial, one when both the links are oriented either in clockwise or counterclockwise direction and another one when one component is oriented clockwise and the second counterclockwise. Moreover, we give general forms of the flow, reliability, and chromatic polynomials of these graphs. The reason to study flow polynomial is that it giv...

arXiv (Cornell University), 2004

We study relationships between the colored Jones polynomial and the A-polynomial of a knot. The AJ conjecture (of Garoufalidis) that relates the colored Jones polynomial and the A-polynomial is established for a large class of two-bridge knots, including all twist knots. We formulate a weaker conjecture and prove that it holds for all two-bridge knots. Along the way we also calculate the Kauffman bracket skein module of the complements of two-bridge knots. Some properties of the colored Jones polynomial are established.

2010

Garoufalidis conjectured a relation between the boundary slopes of a knot and its colored Jones polynomials. According to the conjecture, certain boundary slopes are detected by the sequence of degrees of the colored Jones polynomials. We verify this conjecture for adequate knots, a class that vastly generalizes that of alternating knots.

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2016

We show that the head and tail functions of the colored Jones polynomial of adequate links are the product of head and tail functions of the colored Jones polynomial of alternating links that can be read-off an adequate diagram of the link. We apply this to strengthen a theorem of Kalfagianni, Futer and Purcell on the fiberedness of adequate links.