Homfly polynomials as vassiliev link invariants
Volume 42 / 1998
Banach Center Publications 42 (1998), 165-185
DOI: 10.4064/-42-1-165-185
Abstract
We prove that the number of linearly independent Vassiliev invariants for an r-component link of order n, which derived from the HOMFLY polynomial, is greater than or equal to min{n,[(n+r-1)/2]}.