Kauffman Bracket of 2- and 3-Strand Braid Links
OMS-Vol. 1 (2017), Issue 1, pp. 72–84 | Open Access Full-Text PDF
Abdul Rauf Nizami
Abstract:In this paper we give explicit formulas of the Kauffman bracket of the 2-strand braid link \(\widehat{x_{1}^{n}}\) and the 3-strand braid link \(\widehat{x_{1}^{b}x_{2}^{m}}\). We also show that the Kauffman bracket of the 3-strand braid link \(\widehat{x_{1}^{b}x_{2}^{m}}\) is actually the product of the Kauffman brackets of the 2-strand braid links \(\widehat{x_{1}^{b}}\) and \(\widehat{x_{1}^{m}}\).