Kauffman Brackets of Links and
Universal Signed
Plane Graphs
Weiling Yang and Fuji
Zhang
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Xiamen University,
Xiamen
P.R.China
Abstract
It is well known that a link
diagram correspond to a pair of dual signed plane graphs and the
Kauffman brackets polynomial of the link can be obtained by
computing the generalized Tutte Polynomial of one of its
corresponding signed plane graph. Recently we extent the concept
of chain polynomial to signed graph and used it to deal with the
Tutte polynomials of homeomorphism of classes of signed graphs.
Furthermore we define an equivalence relation on the set of link
diagrams according to the homeomorphic types of their
corresponding signed plane graphs. For each equivalence class we
only need to compute the chain polynomial of a unique signed plane
graph (say universal graph with respect to the equivalence
relation ). Then the Kauffman brackets polynomial of any member of
the class can easily obtained from the chain polynomial by a
special parametrization.We determine the universal graph proved
that the universal graphs with cyclomatic number of 1, 2, 3, 4
and 5 are 1, 1, 4, 16 and 116 respectively.
In this talk we define a new equivalence relation
on the set of link diagrams according to the
their corresponding signed plane graphs.
For each equivalence class we only
need to compute the chain polynomial of a unique signed
plane graph (the universal graph with respect
to the new equivalence relation).
Then the Kauffman brackets polynomial
of any member of the class can easily obtained
from the chain polynomial by a special parametrization.
We determine the universal graph and proved that the universal
graphs with cyclomatic number of
1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are 1, 1, 1, 1 and 2 respectively.
Finally their chain polynomial are also computed.
results.