Oliver T. Dasbach

  Dr. Oliver Dasbach
 
  Louisiana State University
  Department of Mathematics
  Baton Rouge, LA 70803

  phone: (225) 578 1784;   fax: (225) 578 4276
  kasten@math.lsu.edu

Recent preprints

Publications in Knot and Group Theory

  1. The Jones polynomial and graphs on surfaces
    (with David Futer, Effie Kalfagianni, Xiao-Song Lin and Neal Stoltzfus)
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory, B, 98(2), March 2008, pp. 384-399

  2. A Natural Series for the Natural Logarithm,
    The Electronic J. of Comb., Volume 15 (1), March 2008, Note 5, pp. 7

  3. A volume-ish theorem for the Jones polynomial of alternating knots
    (with Xiao-Song Lin) Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 231 (2) 2007, 279-291

  4. On the Head and the Tail of the Colored Jones Polynomial
    (with Xiao-Song Lin) Compositio Math., Vol 142 (2006), No. 5, pp 1332-1342

  5. Property P for Knots admitting Certain Gabai Disks.
    (with Tao Li) Topology Appl., Vol 142 (2004), No. 1-3, pp 113-129

  6. The Automorphism Group of a Free Group is not Subgroup Separable
    (with Brian Mangum )
    Knots, Braids, and Mapping Class Groups-Papers Dedicated to Joan S. Birman,
    AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Volume 24, 2002

  7. The Bennequin number of n-trivial closed n-braids is negative
    (with Xiao-Song Lin),
    Math. Research Letters,     Vol. 8 (2001), No. 5-6, pp. 629-636

  8. On McMullen's and other inequalities for the Thurston norm of link complements
    (with Brian Mangum),
    Algebraic and Geometric Topology    , Vol. 1 (2001), pp. 321-347

  9. Quantum Morphing and the Jones Polynomial
    (with Thang D. Le and Xiao-Song Lin),
    Commun. Math. Phys., 224 (2001) 2, 427-442

  10. On the Combinatorial Structure of Primitive Vassiliev Invariants III - A Lower Bound,
    Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2000, pp. 579-590

  11. A Note on Doubles of Groups
    (with Nadia Benakli, Yair Glasner and Brian Mangum)
    Journal Pure and Applied Algebra, 156 (2-3) (2001) pp. 147-151

  12. A Faithful Representation of the Singular Braid Monoid on Three Strands
    (with Bernd Gemein), KNOTS IN HELLAS '98 - Proc. Intern. Conf. on Knot Theory and Ramif.,
    Series on Knots and Everything, Vol. 24, pp. 48-58, World Scientific, 2000

  13. On the Combinatorial Structure of Primitive Vassiliev Invariants II,
    Journal Combinatorial Theory, Ser. A,
    Vol. 81, No. 2, 1998, pp. 127 - 139

  14. Does the Jones Polynomial Detect Unknottedness?
    (with Stefan Hougardy),
    Experimental Mathematics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1997, pp. 51 - 56

  15. A Conjecture of Kauffman on Amphicheiral Alternating Knots
    (with Stefan Hougardy),
    Journal of Knot Theory Ramif. Vol. 5, No. 5, 1996, pp. 629-635

  16. On Subspaces of the Space of Vassiliev invariants,
    Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 1997

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