• the mathematical field of knot theory, the Jones polynomial is a knot polynomial discovered by Vaughan Jones in 1984. Specifically, it is an invariant...
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    Randal Jones (31 December 1952 – 6 September 2020) was a New Zealand mathematician known for his work on von Neumann algebras and knot polynomials. He was...
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    Jones discovered the Jones polynomial. This led to the discovery of more knot polynomials, such as the so-called HOMFLY polynomial. Soon after Jones'...
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  • theory, the HOMFLY polynomial or HOMFLYPT polynomial, sometimes called the generalized Jones polynomial, is a 2-variable knot polynomial, i.e. a knot invariant...
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    The Tutte polynomial, also called the dichromate or the Tutte–Whitney polynomial, is a graph polynomial. It is a polynomial in two variables which plays...
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  • polynomial ring can be endowed with a structure of a commutative, cocommutative Hopf algebra. Jones polynomial Weisstein, Eric W. "Laurent Polynomial"...
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    famous knot invariant called the Jones polynomial. The bracket polynomial is important in unifying the Jones polynomial with other quantum invariants. In...
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  • a cochain complex. It may be regarded as a categorification of the Jones polynomial. It was developed in the late 1990s by Mikhail Khovanov. To any link...
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  • realized until the discovery of the Jones polynomial in 1984. Soon after Conway's reworking of the Alexander polynomial, it was realized that a similar skein...
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  • calculate knot invariants and three-manifold invariants such as the Jones polynomial. Particularly, Chern–Simons theory is specified by a choice of simple...
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  • Jones polynomial. A key insight of Michael Freedman in 1997 was to compare Witten's results with the fact that the evaluation of the Jones polynomial...
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    defining new, powerful knot invariants. The discovery of the Jones polynomial by Vaughan Jones in 1984 (Sossinsky 2002, pp. 71–89), and subsequent contributions...
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  • knot invariant called the Jones polynomial. The bracket polynomial plays an important role in unifying the Jones polynomial with other quantum invariants...
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  • Touchard polynomials Wilkinson's polynomial Wilson polynomials Zernike polynomials Pseudo-Zernike polynomials Alexander polynomial HOMFLY polynomial Jones polynomial...
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    efficiently computable for this purpose. It is not known whether the Jones polynomial or finite type invariants can detect the unknot. It can be difficult...
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    particularly simple and common example. Other examples are knot polynomials, such as the Jones polynomial, which are currently among the most useful invariants...
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  • ISBN 0-521-63503-9. Aharonov, D.; Jones, V.; Landau, Z. (2006). "A polynomial quantum algorithm for approximating the Jones polynomial". Proceedings of the 38th...
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  • The Jones polynomial is a special case of the Kauffman polynomial, as the L polynomial specializes to the bracket polynomial. The Kauffman polynomial is...
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    Vaughan Jones' discovery of the Jones polynomial in 1984. This led to other knot polynomials such as the bracket polynomial, HOMFLY polynomial, and Kauffman...
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  • the Aharonov–Jones–Landau algorithm is an efficient quantum algorithm for obtaining an additive approximation of the Jones polynomial of a given link...
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  • and Morwen Thistlethwaite in 1987, using the Jones polynomial. A geometric proof, not using knot polynomials, was given in 2017 by Joshua Greene. A second...
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    because of its Conway polynomial, which is ∇ ( z ) = 1 − z 2 ,   {\displaystyle \nabla (z)=1-z^{2},\ } and the Jones polynomial is V ( q ) = q 2 − q +...
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  • categorification of the Jones polynomial" (Page 337). Khovanov, Mikhail (2000), "A categorification of the Jones polynomial", Duke Mathematical Journal...
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  • {\displaystyle 1} . The theory of subfactors led to the discovery of the Jones polynomial in knot theory. Usually M {\displaystyle M} is taken to be a factor...
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    1 / t ) {\displaystyle V(1/t)} is the Jones polynomial for the mirror image of a link having Jones polynomial V ( t ) {\displaystyle V(t)} . The hyperbolic...
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    shares the same Jones polynomial. Both knots also have the curious property of having the same Alexander polynomial and Conway polynomial as the unknot...
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    bewildering profusion of generalizations. He had found a new knot polynomial, the Jones polynomial. Specifically, it is an invariant of an oriented knot or link...
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    Many important invariants can be defined in this way, including the Jones polynomial. The type I move is the only move that affects the writhe of the diagram...
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  • systems get a short check value attached, based on the remainder of a polynomial division of their contents. On retrieval, the calculation is repeated...
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    theory, bounded-error quantum polynomial time (BQP) is the class of decision problems solvable by a quantum computer in polynomial time, with an error probability...
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