Invariants of Closed Braids via Counting Surfaces

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Datum
2012MFO Scientific Program
OWLF 2012Serie
Oberwolfach Preprints;2012,15Autor
Brandenbursky, Michael
Metadata
Zur LanganzeigeOWP-2012-15
Zusammenfassung
A Gauss diagram is a simple, combinatorial way to present a link. It is known that any Vassiliev invariant may be obtained from a Gauss diagram formula that involves counting subdiagrams of certain combinatorial types. In this paper we present simple formulas for an infinite family of invariants in terms of counting surfaces of a certain genus and number of boundary components in a Gauss diagram associated with a closed braid. We then identify the resulting invariants with partial derivatives of the HOMFLY-PT polynomial.