Quantum Topology / Hopf Algebra Seminar
Ivan Handler
CIO of the Illinois Health Information Exchange Authority
The Alexander Polynomial of an alternating knot is Trapezoidal.
Abstract: In the 1950s Ralph Fox conjectured that for the Alexander polynomial of an alternating knot,
the absolute values of the coefficients form a trapezoidal sequence.
Extending techniques in L. H. Kauffman's book "Formal Knot Theory", the speaker
gives a combinatorial proof of the Fox Conjecture for alternating knots.
Thursday April 17, 2014 at 3:00 PM in SEO 612