The Kauffman Polynomials of 2-bridge Knots
Bin Lu, Jianyuan K. Zhong
Abstract
The 2-bridge knots are a family of knots with bridge number 2. In this paper, we compute the Kauffman polynomials of 2-bridge knots using the Kauffman skein theory and linear algebra techniques. Our calculation can be easily carried out using Mathematica, Maple, Mathcad, etc.
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