“Jones Polynomial”的概念、定义、习题解题方法及翻译-数学辞典

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Jones Polynomial

释义

Jones Polynomial

The second Knot Polynomial discovered. Unlike the first-discovered Alexander Polynomial, the Jones polynomialcan sometimes distinguish handedness (as can its more powerful generalization, the HOMFLY Polynomial). Jonespolynomials are Laurent Polynomials in assigned to an Knot. The Jonespolynomials are denoted for Links, for Knots, and normalized so that

(1)

For example, the Jones polynomial of the Trefoil Knot is given by

(2)

If a Link has an Odd number of components, then is a Laurent Polynomial over theIntegers; if the number of components is Even, is times a Laurent Polynomial.The Jones polynomial of a Knot Sum satisfies

(3)

The Skein Relationship for under- and overcrossings is

(4)

Combined with the link sum relationship, this allows Jones polynomials to be built up from simple knots and links tomore complicated ones.

Some interesting identities from Jones (1985) follow. For any Link ,

(5)

where

is the Alexander Polynomial, and

(6)

where

is the number of components of

. For any Knot

(7)

and

(8)

Let denote the Mirror Image of a Knot . Then

(9)

For example, the right-hand and left-hand Trefoil Knots have polynomials

			(10)
			(11)

Jones defined a simplified trace invariant for knots by

(12)

The Arf Invariant of

is given by

(13)

(Jones 1985), where i is

. A table of the

polynomials is given by Jones (1985) for knots of up toeight crossings, and by Jones (1987) for knots of up to 10 crossings. (Note that in these papers, an additionalpolynomial which Jones calls

is also tabulated, but it is not the conventionally defined Jones polynomial.)

Jones polynomials were subsequently generalized to the two-variable HOMFLY Polynomials, therelationship being

(14)

(15)

They are related to the Kauffman Polynomial F by

(16)

Jones (1987) gives a table of Braid Words and

polynomials for knots up to 10 crossings. Jonespolynomials for Knots up to nine crossings are given in Adams (1994) and for oriented links up to ninecrossings by Doll and Hoste (1991). All Prime Knots with 10 or fewer crossings have distinct Jonespolynomials. It is not known if there is a nontrivial knot with Jones polynomial 1. The Jones polynomial of an

-Torus Knot is

(17)

Let

be one component of an oriented Link

. Now form a new oriented Link

by reversing theorientation of

. Then

(18)

where

is the Jones polynomial and

is the Linking Number of

and

. No such result isknown for HOMFLY Polynomials (Lickorish and Millett 1988).

Birman and Lin (1993) showed that substituting the Power Series for as the variable in the Jonespolynomial yields a Power Series whose Coefficients are VassilievPolynomials.

Let be an oriented connected Link projection of crossings, then

(19)

with equality if

is Alternating and has no Removable Crossing (Lickorish and Millett1988).

There exist distinct Knots with the same Jones polynomial. Examples include (05-001,10-132), (08-008, 10-129), (08-016, 10-156), (10-025,10-056), (10-022, 10-035), (10-041, 10-094), (10-043,10-091), (10-059, 10-106), (10-060, 10-083), (10-071,10-104), (10-073, 10-086), (10-081, 10-109), and (10-137,10-155) (Jones 1987). Incidentally, the first four of these also have the same HOMFLY Polynomial.

Witten (1989) gave a heuristic definition in terms of a topological quantum field theory, and Sawin (1996) showed that the``quantum group'' gives rise to the Jones polynomial.

See also Alexander Polynomial, HOMFLY Polynomial, Kauffman Polynomial F, Knot, Link, Vassiliev Polynomial

References

Adams, C. C. The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1994.

Birman, J. S. and Lin, X.-S. ``Knot Polynomials and Vassiliev's Invariants.'' Invent. Math. 111, 225-270, 1993.

Doll, H. and Hoste, J. ``A Tabulation of Oriented Links.'' Math. Comput. 57, 747-761, 1991.

Jones, V. ``A Polynomial Invariant for Knots via von Neumann Algebras.'' Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 12, 103-111, 1985.

Jones, V. ``Hecke Algebra Representations of Braid Groups and Link Polynomials.'' Ann. Math. 126, 335-388, 1987.

Lickorish, W. B. R. and Millett, B. R. ``The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links.'' Math. Mag. 61, 1-23, 1988.

Murasugi, K. ``Jones Polynomials and Classical Conjectures in Knot Theory.'' Topology 26, 297-307, 1987.

Praslov, V. V. and Sossinsky, A. B. Knots, Links, Braids and 3-Manifolds: An Introduction to the New Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology. Providence, RI: Amer. Math. Soc., 1996.

Sawin, S. ``Links, Quantum Groups, and TQFTS.'' Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33, 413-445, 1996.

Stoimenow, A. ``Jones Polynomials.'' http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~stoimeno/ptab/j10.html.

Thistlethwaite, M. ``A Spanning Tree Expansion for the Jones Polynomial.'' Topology 26, 297-309, 1987.

Weisstein, E. W. ``Knots and Links.'' Mathematica notebook Knots.m.

Witten, E. ``Quantum Field Theory and the Jones Polynomial.'' Comm. Math. Phys. 121, 351-399, 1989.

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