English Explanatory Dictionary

Jones polynomial

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A particular knot polynomial that is an invariant of an oriented knot or link which assigns to each oriented knot or link a Laurent polynomial in the variable t^(1/2) with integer coefficients.

Word forms

Jones polynomial Jones polynomials

Etymology

Discovered by Vaughan Jones in 1984.

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