Kauffman states and Heegaard diagrams for tangles
Kauffman states and Heegaard diagrams for tangles
We define polynomial tangle invariants r s T via Kauffman states and Alexander codes and investigate some of their properties.In particular, we prove symmetry relations for r s T of 4-ended tangles and deduce that the multivariable Alexander polynomial is invariant under Conway mutation.The invariants r s T can be …