State models for link polynomials

zbMath0711.57003MaRDI QIDQ923427

Louis H. Kauffman

Publication date: 1990

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Baxter equationsskein relationsGauss integral formulastate models for the Homfly and Kauffman polynomials for a linkvertex models in statistical mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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On a generalization of Jones polynomial and its categorification for Legendrian knots ⋮ Plane graphs and link invariants ⋮ The HOMFLY-PT polynomial is fixed-parameter tractable ⋮ New skein invariants of links ⋮ Bands, tangles and linear skein theory ⋮ Computer evaluation of Homfly polynomials by using Gauss codes, with a skein-template algorithm ⋮ Combinatorics and topology - François Jaeger's work in knot theory ⋮ Skein invariants of links and their state sum models ⋮ Computer evaluation of Kauffman polynomials by using Gauss codes, with a skein-template algorithm

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