L6a1

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	L6a1 is $6^2_3$ in the Rolfsen table of links.

A kolam with two cycles/components[1]	Depiction with two eights interlaced	Mongolian ornament ; the two eights are horizontal
Another one, sum of two L6a1	Another depiction

Link Presentations

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Planar diagram presentation	X6172 X10,3,11,4 X12,8,5,7 X8,12,9,11 X2536 X4,9,1,10
Gauss code	{1, -5, 2, -6}, {5, -1, 3, -4, 6, -2, 4, -3}

A Braid Representative
A Morse Link Presentation

Polynomial invariants

Multivariable Alexander Polynomial (in $u$, $v$, $w$, ...)	$\frac{u v-2 u-2 v+1}{\sqrt{u} \sqrt{v}}$ (db)
Jones polynomial	$-\frac{1}{q^{9/2}}+\frac{1}{q^{7/2}}-\frac{3}{q^{5/2}}-q^{3/2}+\frac{2}{q^{3/2}}+2 \sqrt{q}-\frac{2}{\sqrt{q}}$ (db)
Signature	-1 (db)
HOMFLY-PT polynomial	$a^5 z^{-1} -2 z a^3-a^3 z^{-1} +z^3 a+z a-z a^{-1}$ (db)
Kauffman polynomial	$a^5 z^3-2 a^5 z+a^5 z^{-1} +a^4 z^4-a^4+a^3 z^5-a^3 z+a^3 z^{-1} +3 a^2 z^4-3 a^2 z^2+a z^5+z^3 a^{-1} -z a^{-1} +2 z^4-3 z^2$ (db)

Khovanov Homology

The coefficients of the monomials $t^rq^j$ are shown, along with their alternating sums $\chi$ (fixed $j$, alternation over $r$).

\   r    \    j   \ -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 χ 4             1 1 2           1   -1 0         1 1   0 -2       2 2     0 -4     1         1 -6     2         2 -8 1 1           0 -10 1             1

Integral Khovanov Homology (db, data source)

$\dim{\mathcal G}_{2r+i}\operatorname{KH}^r_{\mathbb Z}$ $i=-2$ $i=0$ $r=-4$ ${\mathbb Z}$ ${\mathbb Z}$ $r=-3$ ${\mathbb Z}$ $r=-2$ ${\mathbb Z}^{2}\oplus{\mathbb Z}_2$ ${\mathbb Z}$ $r=-1$ ${\mathbb Z}_2^{2}$ ${\mathbb Z}^{2}$ $r=0$ ${\mathbb Z}^{2}$ ${\mathbb Z}$ $r=1$ ${\mathbb Z}\oplus{\mathbb Z}_2$ ${\mathbb Z}$ $r=2$ ${\mathbb Z}_2$ ${\mathbb Z}$

Computer Talk

Much of the above data can be recomputed by Mathematica using the package KnotTheory`. See A Sample KnotTheory` Session.

Modifying This Page

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