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LOWER BOUNDS FOR THE NUMBER OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CROSSINGS IN ORIENTED LINK DIAGRAMS

Lei, Fengchun (School of Mathematical Sciences Dalian University of Technology)
Zhang, Kai (School of Mathematical Sciences Dalian University of Technology)

Publication Information

Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.54, no.6, 2017 , pp. 2149-2154 More about this Journal

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain a simple lower bound for the number of positive (resp. negative) crossings in oriented link diagrams in terms of the maximal (resp. minimal) degree of the Jones polynomial.

Keywords

Jones polynomial; positive crossings; negative crossings;

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