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Knots in Washington XLIII; 60th birthday of J. Scott Carter
December 9-11, 2016
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

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The Jones polynomial of almost-alternating and Turaev genus one links
by
Adam Lowrance
Vassar College

In this talk we show that either the first or last nonzero coefficient of the Jones

polynomial has absolute value one for both almost-alternating and Turaev genus one

links. We also discuss a potential generalization of this result to Khovanov homology.

Date received: November 5, 2016


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