Abstract
We give characterizations of the skein polynomial for links (as well as Jones and Alexander–Conway polynomials derivable from it), avoiding the usual “smoothing of a crossing” move. As by-products, we have characterizations of these polynomials for knots and for links with any given number of components.
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