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	L8n2 is $8_{15}^{2}$ in the Rolfsen table of links.

Link Presentations

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Planar diagram presentation	X6172 X14,7,15,8 X15,1,16,4 X9,12,10,13 X3849 X5,11,6,10 X11,5,12,16 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
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Polynomial invariants

Multivariable Alexander Polynomial (in $u$, $v$, $w$, ...)	$-{\frac {(u-1)(v-1)}{{\sqrt {u}}{\sqrt {v}}}}$ (db)
Jones polynomial	$-q^{5/2}+q^{3/2}-2{\sqrt {q}}+{\frac {1}{\sqrt {q}}}-{\frac {1}{q^{3/2}}}+{\frac {1}{q^{5/2}}}-{\frac {1}{q^{7/2}}}$ (db)
Signature	1 (db)
HOMFLY-PT polynomial	$za^{3}+a^{3}z^{-1}-z^{3}a-3za-2az^{-1}+2za^{-1}+2a^{-1}z^{-1}-a^{-3}z^{-1}$ (db)
Kauffman polynomial	$-a^{2}z^{6}-z^{6}-a^{3}z^{5}-2az^{5}-z^{5}a^{-1}+4a^{2}z^{4}+4z^{4}+4a^{3}z^{3}+8az^{3}+4z^{3}a^{-1}-3a^{2}z^{2}-z^{2}a^{-2}-4z^{2}-3a^{3}z-8az-6za^{-1}-za^{-3}+1+a^{3}z^{-1}+2az^{-1}+2a^{-1}z^{-1}+a^{-3}z^{-1}$ (db)

Khovanov Homology

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

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

Integral Khovanov Homology (db, data source)

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

Computer Talk

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

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