Matrix Integrals and the Counting of Tangles and Links
arXiv:math-ph/9904019
Abstract
Using matrix model techniques for the counting of planar Feynman diagrams, recent results of Sundberg and Thistlethwaite on the counting of alternating tangles and links are reproduced.
17 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Barcelona June 1999