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Knots in Washington XLVI: 70th Birthday of Oleg Viro;
May 4-6, 2018
George Washington University,
Washington, DC, USA

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

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Are almost alternating links semi-adequate?
by
Adam Lowrance
Vassar College

An almost alternating link is a non-alternating link with a diagram that can be transformed into an alternating diagram via a single crossing change. A Kauffman state is called adequate if no two arcs in the resolution of the same crossing lie on the same component of the state. A link is semi-adequate if it has a diagram where either the all-A state or the all-B state is adequate. In this talk, we discuss the similarities between the Jones polynomial and Khovanov homology of almost alternating and semi-adequate links.

Date received: April 7, 2018


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