Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan
Online ISSN : 1881-1167
Print ISSN : 0025-5645
ISSN-L : 0025-5645
Links with trivial 𝑄-polynomial
Yasuyuki Miyazawa
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2019 Volume 71 Issue 1 Pages 19-42

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The 𝑄-polynomial is an invariant of the isotopy type of an unoriented link defined by Brandt, Lickorish, Millett, and Ho around 1985. It is shown that there exist infinitely many prime knots and links with trivial 𝑄-polynomial, and so the 𝑄-polynomial does not detect trivial links.

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