JournalsqtVol. 9, No. 3pp. 461–472

The Homflypt polynomial and the oriented Thompson group

  • Valeriano Aiello

    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

  • Roberto Conti

    Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

  • Vaughan F. R. Jones

    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
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Abstract

We show how to construct unitary representations of the oriented Thompson group from oriented link invariants. In particular we show that the suitably normalised HOMFLYPT polynomial defines a positive definite function of .

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Valeriano Aiello, Roberto Conti, Vaughan F. R. Jones, The Homflypt polynomial and the oriented Thompson group. Quantum Topol. 9 (2018), no. 3, pp. 461–472

DOI 10.4171/QT/112