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INVARIANTS OF CLOSED BRAIDS VIA COUNTING SURFACES

MICHAEL BRANDENBURSKY

Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37240, USA

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216513500119Cited by:2 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

A Gauss diagram is a simple, combinatorial way to present a link. It is known that any Vassiliev invariant may be obtained from a Gauss diagram formula that involves counting subdiagrams of certain combinatorial types. In this paper we present simple formulas for an infinite family of invariants in terms of counting surfaces of a certain genus and number of boundary components in a Gauss diagram associated with a closed braid. We then identify the resulting invariants with partial derivatives of the HOMFLY-PT polynomial.

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AMSC: 20F36, 57M25, 57M27

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