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Knots in Washington XX; 60th birthday of Louis H. Kauffman
February 11-13, 2005
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Sofia Lambropoulou (NTUA and Univ. de Caen), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU)

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On Kauffman's spanning tree expansion of the Alexander polynomial
by
Oliver Dasbach
LSU
Coauthors: Charlie Frohman (University of Iowa)

Some twenty years ago, Kauffman discovered a spanning tree expansion for the Alexander polynomial. Recently, Ozsvath and Szabo used this expansion for the computation of their Floer knot homology for alternating knots. We will present some remarks on Kauffman's theory.

Date received: February 9, 2005


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