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STATE MODELS FOR KNOT POLYNOMIALS AN INTRODUCTION

LOUIS H. KAUFFMAN

University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Chicago Illinois 60680, USA

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Abstract

This paper is an unpublished version of a talk that the author gave in Brazil in 1987 at a meeting of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, while visiting Sostenes Lins in Recife, Brazil. The paper is an introduction to state models for link invariants, and it gives a surface-genus interpretation of the extreme terms in the bracket polynomial.

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