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A general method for computing the Homfly polynomial of DNA double crossover 3-regular links.

ABSTRACT: In the last 20 years or so, chemists and molecular biologists have synthesized some novel DNA polyhedra. Polyhedral links were introduced to model DNA polyhedra and study topological properties of DNA polyhedra. As a very powerful invariant of oriented links, the Homfly polynomial of some of such polyhedral links with small number of crossings has been obtained. However, it is a challenge to compute Homfly polynomials of polyhedral links with large number of crossings such as double crossover 3-regular links considered here. In this paper, a general method is given for computing the chain polynomial of the truncated cubic graph with two different labels from the chain polynomial of the original labeled cubic graph by substitutions. As a result, we can obtain the Homfly polynomial of the double crossover 3-regular link which has relatively large number of crossings.

SUBMITTER: Li M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4416910 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A general method for computing the Homfly polynomial of DNA double crossover 3-regular links.

Li Meilian M Deng Qingying Q Jin Xian'an X

PloS one 20150501 5

In the last 20 years or so, chemists and molecular biologists have synthesized some novel DNA polyhedra. Polyhedral links were introduced to model DNA polyhedra and study topological properties of DNA polyhedra. As a very powerful invariant of oriented links, the Homfly polynomial of some of such polyhedral links with small number of crossings has been obtained. However, it is a challenge to compute Homfly polynomials of polyhedral links with large number of crossings such as double crossover 3- ...[more]

PMID: 25932998

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A general method for computing the Homfly polynomial of DNA double crossover 3-regular links.

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A general method for computing the Homfly polynomial of DNA double crossover 3-regular links.

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