Summary: PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
Vol. 124, No. 1,1986
THE REVERSINGRESULTFORTHE
JONES POLYNOMIAL
W. B. R. LlCKORISH AND K. C. MlLLETT
A short proof is given, using linear skein theory, of the theorem of
V.F.R. Jones that the one variable "Jones" polynomial associated to an
oriented link is independent of the choice of strand orientations, up to a
multiple of the variable.
The Jones polynomial of an oriented link K is the element V(K) of
Z[t
±/2
) defined by
tV(K+
) -

V(K_) +(t
1
'
2

Source: Akhmedov, Azer - Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara

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