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Knots in Washington XLVIII
May 10-12, 2019
George Washington University
Washington, DC, United States

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU)

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The Affine Index Polynomial for virtual tangles. Preliminary report.
by
Nicolas Petit
Oxford College of Emory University

This is a preliminary report on current, work-in-progress research.

After reminding the audience of the affine index polynomial for virtual knots and its recent generalization to compatible links, both defined by Kauffman, we will discuss a version of the invariant for virtual tangles.

We will talk about the motivation for this invariant, go over its definition and why it generalizes the other affine index polynomials, and discuss a few properties/issues we're currently working on (mostly having to do with normalization).

Date received: April 22, 2019

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