The colored Kauffman Skein relation and the head and tail of the colored Jones polynomial
The colored Kauffman Skein relation and the head and tail of the colored Jones polynomial
Using the colored Kauffman skein relation, we study the highest and lowest [Formula: see text] coefficients of the [Formula: see text] unreduced colored Jones polynomial of alternating links. This gives a natural extension of a result by Kauffman in regard with the Jones polynomial of alternating links and its highest …