Maximal Bennequin numbers and Kauffman polynomials of positive links

Tanaka, Toshifumi

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04983-7

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.

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