KNOTS IN WASHINGTON XXVI. April 20, 2008

Polyak-Viro formulas for coefficients of the Conway polynomial.

I will report a work of my students Michael (Cap) Khoury and Alfred Rossi who 
found Polyak-Viro arrow diagram formulas for the coefficients of the Conway 
polynomial. The formulas are related to a state model of F.Jaeger and answer 
one of his questions. This model gives a description of the Conway polynomial 
as a state sum over some subsets of crossings of a knot diagrams.