paper

A bracket polynomial for 2-tangle shadows

arXiv:2002.06672

Abstract

We compute the Kauffman bracket polynomial of the numerator and denominator closures of A + A + ... + A ( A is repeated n times), where A is a 2-tangle shadow that has at most 4 crossings.

36 pages, 81 tables, 2 figures, 9 OEIS A-numbers