A family of links and the Conway calculus
A family of links and the Conway calculus
In 1969, J. H. Conway gave efficient methods of calculating abelian invariants of classical knots and links. The present paper includes a detailed exposition (with new proofs) of these methods and extensions in several directions. The main application given here is as follows. A link <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper …