Graph-Links: Nonrealizability, Orientation, and Jones Polynomial

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to graph-links with many components and consists of two parts. In the first part of the paper we classify vertices of a labeled graph according to the component they belong to. Using this classification, we construct an invariant of graph-links. This invariant shows that the labeled second Bouchet graph generates a nonrealizable graph-link.

In the second part of the work we introduce the notion of an oriented graph-link. We define a writhe number for the oriented graph-link and we get an invariant of oriented graph-links, the Jones polynomial, by normalizing the Kauffman bracket with the writhe number.