The Alexander- and Jones-invariants and the Burau module
arXiv:q-alg/9510016
Abstract
From the braid-valued Burau module over the braid group we construct the Yang-Baxter matrices yielding the Alexander- and the Jones knot invariants. This generalises an observation of V. F. R. Jones.
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