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KNOTS in WASHINGTON XV (2nd Japan-USA Workshop in Knot Theory)
January 10-15, 2003
George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University
Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD, USA

Organizers
Kazuaki Kobayashi, Jozef H. Przytycki, Yongwu Rong, Shin-ichi Suzuki, Kouki Taniyama, Tatsuya Tsukamoto, Akira Yasuhara

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A new construction of the Kauffman polynomial
by
Nikolai V. Ivanov
Michigan State University

We will present a new construction of the Kauffman polynomial (in its Dubrovnik version) inspired by X.-S. Lin's approach to finite type link invariants. A simpler version of this construction sheds a new light on the Kalfagianni-Lin approach to the 2-variable Jones (LYMPHTOFU) polynomial.

Date received: January 8, 2003

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