L8a1

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L8a2

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	L8a1 is $8^2_{13}$ in the Rolfsen table of links.

Link Presentations

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Planar diagram presentation	X6172 X14,7,15,8 X4,15,1,16 X12,10,13,9 X8493 X10,5,11,6 X16,11,5,12 X2,14,3,13
Gauss code	{1, -8, 5, -3}, {6, -1, 2, -5, 4, -6, 7, -4, 8, -2, 3, -7}

A Braid Representative
A Morse Link Presentation

Polynomial invariants

Multivariable Alexander Polynomial (in $u$, $v$, $w$, ...)	$-\frac{(t(1)-1) (t(2)-1) \left(t(2)^2-3 t(2)+1\right)}{\sqrt{t(1)} t(2)^{3/2}}$ (db)
Jones polynomial	$q^{5/2}-4 q^{3/2}+5 \sqrt{q}-\frac{7}{\sqrt{q}}+\frac{7}{q^{3/2}}-\frac{7}{q^{5/2}}+\frac{5}{q^{7/2}}-\frac{3}{q^{9/2}}+\frac{1}{q^{11/2}}$ (db)
Signature	-1 (db)
HOMFLY-PT polynomial	$a^5 (-z)+2 a^3 z^3+2 a^3 z-a z^5-2 a z^3+z^3 a^{-1} -a z+a z^{-1} - a^{-1} z^{-1}$ (db)
Kauffman polynomial	$a^6 z^4-a^6 z^2+3 a^5 z^5-4 a^5 z^3+2 a^5 z+4 a^4 z^6-5 a^4 z^4+2 a^4 z^2+2 a^3 z^7+4 a^3 z^5-10 a^3 z^3+4 a^3 z+9 a^2 z^6-14 a^2 z^4+z^4 a^{-2} +5 a^2 z^2+2 a z^7+5 a z^5+4 z^5 a^{-1} -11 a z^3-5 z^3 a^{-1} +2 a z+a z^{-1} + a^{-1} z^{-1} +5 z^6-7 z^4+2 z^2-1$ (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   \ -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 χ 6                 1 -1 4               3   3 2             2 1   -1 0           5 3     2 -2         4 4       0 -4       3 3         0 -6     2 4           2 -8   1 3             -2 -10   2               2 -12 1                 -1

Integral Khovanov Homology (db, data source)

$\dim{\mathcal G}_{2r+i}\operatorname{KH}^r_{\mathbb Z}$ $i=-2$ $i=0$ $r=-5$ ${\mathbb Z}$ $r=-4$ ${\mathbb Z}^{2}\oplus{\mathbb Z}_2$ ${\mathbb Z}$ $r=-3$ ${\mathbb Z}^{3}\oplus{\mathbb Z}_2^{2}$ ${\mathbb Z}^{2}$ $r=-2$ ${\mathbb Z}^{4}\oplus{\mathbb Z}_2^{3}$ ${\mathbb Z}^{3}$ $r=-1$ ${\mathbb Z}^{3}\oplus{\mathbb Z}_2^{4}$ ${\mathbb Z}^{4}$ $r=0$ ${\mathbb Z}^{4}\oplus{\mathbb Z}_2^{3}$ ${\mathbb Z}^{5}$ $r=1$ ${\mathbb Z}^{3}\oplus{\mathbb Z}_2^{2}$ ${\mathbb Z}^{2}$ $r=2$ ${\mathbb Z}\oplus{\mathbb Z}_2^{3}$ ${\mathbb Z}^{3}$ $r=3$ ${\mathbb Z}_2$ ${\mathbb Z}$

Computer Talk

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

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