Abstract
We adapt Thistlethwaite's alternating tangle decomposition of a knot diagram to identify the potential extreme terms in its bracket polynomial, and give a simple combinatorial calculation for their coefficients, based on the intersection graph of certain chord diagrams.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 359-373 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2003 |
Keywords
- Alternating tangle decomposition
- Bracket polynomial
- Extreme terms
- Intersection graph