Unlinked Embedded Graphs

This paper is a self-contained development of an invariant of graphs embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space using the Jones polynomial and skein theory. Some examples of the invariant are computed. An unlinked embedded graph is one that contains only trivial knots or links. Examples show that...

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Main Author: Barrett, John W.
Format: Article
Published: 2000
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13/3/0009016.ps
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13/1/0009016.pdf