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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
Copyright © 2005 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Mathematical Conference Abstracts. Document # capo-28.