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Extreme coefficients of Jones polynomials and graph theory

P. M. G. Manchón

Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, E.U.I.T Industrial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ronda de Valencia, 3, 28012 Madrid, Spain

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216504003135Cited by:9 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We find families of prime diagrams of knots with arbitrary extreme coefficients in their Jones polynomials. Some graph theory is presents in connection with this problem, generalizing ideas by Yongju Bae and Morton [4] and giving a positive answer to a question in their paper.

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