Chang, S.-C.; Shrock, R. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 301 (2001) 1, pp. 196-218
We calculate Jones polynomials VL(t) for several families of alternating knots and links by computing the Tutte polynomials T(G,x,y) for the associated graphs G and then obtaining VL(t) as a special case of the Tutte polynomial. For each of these families we determine the zeros of the Jones...