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We studied the relation of Xu’s algorithm and the skein polynomial in [St2]***, and here we will go further to connect fiberedness, and the Alexander and Jones polynomial to Xu’s form.
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Stoimenow, A. (2017). Xu’s Form and Seifert Surfaces. In: Properties of Closed 3-Braids and Braid Representations of Links . SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68149-8_3
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