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Commuting transfer matrices and link polynomials. (English) Zbl 0774.57005

Guided by ideas from statistical mechanics, more specifically the use of the Yang-Baxter equation with a spectral parameter to obtain exactly solvable models, the author describes a procedure to produce examples of non-equivalent links with identical Jones and HOMFLY polynonials. The procedure includes mutation as a special case but goes well beyond it. The Kauffman polynomial is in general not preserved. The results provide examples with small crossing numbes, e.g. the pair \(4_ 1\#4_ 1\) and \(8_ 1\) or the pair \(8_ 8\) and \(10_{129}\) each have the same Jones polynomial.
Reviewer: E.Vogt (Berlin)

MSC:

57M25 Knots and links in the \(3\)-sphere (MSC2010)
82B23 Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz
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