The Homfly polynomial of the decorated Hopf link

Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 395-416

  Morton, Hugh R ^a   Lukac, Sascha G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annulus; Hecke algebras; Homfly polynomial; Hopf link; Quantum sl(N) invariants; Schur functions; Skein theory; Symmetric functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 13244270538     PISSN: 02182165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218216503002536     Document Type: Article

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