HOMFLY polynomial
Polinomio HOMFLY
- Date
- 1985 · confidence high
- Place
- United States
- Credited to
- Adrian Ocneanu, Kenneth Millett, W. B. R. Lickorish, Paweł Traczyk, Józef Przytycki y Peter J. Freyd
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Two-variable polynomial invariant for knots in knot theory, discovered independently by several groups of mathematicians; it generalizes the Jones polynomial.
What it led to
- Development of quantum knot topology
- Vassiliev invariants
- Applications in statistical physics
- Topological field theory