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	L8a16 is $8^3_{5}$ in the Rolfsen table of links.

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Link Presentations

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

A Braid Representative
A Morse Link Presentation

Polynomial invariants

Multivariable Alexander Polynomial (in $u$, $v$, $w$, ...)	$\frac{(t(1)-1) (t(2)-1) (t(3)-1) (t(2) t(3)+1)}{\sqrt{t(1)} t(2) t(3)}$ (db)
Jones polynomial	$-q^6+3 q^5-4 q^4+6 q^3-5 q^2- q^{-2} +6 q+3 q^{-1} -3$ (db)
Signature	2 (db)
HOMFLY-PT polynomial	$z^6 a^{-2} +4 z^4 a^{-2} -z^4 a^{-4} -z^4+4 z^2 a^{-2} -2 z^2 a^{-4} -2 z^2- a^{-2} +1-2 a^{-2} z^{-2} + a^{-4} z^{-2} + z^{-2}$ (db)
Kauffman polynomial	$2 z^7 a^{-1} +2 z^7 a^{-3} +7 z^6 a^{-2} +4 z^6 a^{-4} +3 z^6+a z^5-3 z^5 a^{-1} +4 z^5 a^{-5} -17 z^4 a^{-2} -5 z^4 a^{-4} +3 z^4 a^{-6} -9 z^4-2 a z^3-z^3 a^{-1} -3 z^3 a^{-3} -3 z^3 a^{-5} +z^3 a^{-7} +10 z^2 a^{-2} +2 z^2 a^{-4} -2 z^2 a^{-6} +6 z^2-z a^{-1} -z a^{-3} + a^{-2} + a^{-4} +1+2 a^{-1} z^{-1} +2 a^{-3} z^{-1} -2 a^{-2} z^{-2} - a^{-4} z^{-2} - z^{-2}$ (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   \ -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 χ 13                 1 -1 11               2   2 9             2 1   -1 7           4 2     2 5         3 4       1 3       3 2         1 1     2 5           3 -1   1 1             0 -3   2               2 -5 1                 -1

Integral Khovanov Homology (db, data source)

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

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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