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Exploring the HOMFLY and Kauffman Polynomials

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Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics ((GTM,volume 175))

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Elementary properties of the Jones polynomial have already been discussed in Chapter 3. Versions of some of those results which hold equally well for the HOMFLY and Kauffman polynomials are given below. Where proofs are essentially the same as those relating to the Jones polynomial, they are left as an exercise.

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Lickorish, W.B.R. (1997). Exploring the HOMFLY and Kauffman Polynomials. In: An Introduction to Knot Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 175. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0691-0_16

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