Maximal Bennequin numbers and Kauffman polynomials of positive links
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Abstract:
By using results of Yamada and of Yokota, concerning link diagrams and link polynomials, we give some relationships between maximal Bennequin numbers and Kauffman polynomials of positive links.References
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Additional Information
- Toshifumi Tanaka
- Affiliation: Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Hakozaki 6-10-1, Higashiku, Fukuoka, 812-8581 Japan
- Email: ttanaka@math.kyushu-u.ac.jp
- Received by editor(s): September 27, 1997
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: February 6, 1998
- Published electronically: May 6, 1999
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 3427-3432
- MSC (1991): Primary 57M50, 57M25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04983-7
- MathSciNet review: 1616601