The spread and extreme terms of Jones polynomials
Yongju Bae, H. R. Morton
Abstract
We adapt Thistlethwaite's alternating tangle decomposition of a knot diagram to identify the potential extreme terms in its bracket polynomial, and give a simple combinatorial calculation for their coefficients, based on the intersection graph of certain chord diagrams.
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