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An evaluation of the Jones polynomial of a parallel link

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Makoto Sakuma
Makoto Sakuma
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College of General Education, Osaka University, Japan
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The Jones polynomial VL(t) of a link L in S3 contains certain information on the homology of the 2-fold branched covering D(L) of S3 branched along L. The following formulae are proved by Jones[3] and Lickorish and Millett[6] respectively:

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 104 , Issue 1 , July 1988 , pp. 105 - 113
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1988

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