We present a construction of invariants for links using an isomorphism theorem for affine Yokonuma-Hecke algebras. The isomorphism relates affine Yokonuma-Hecke algebras with usual affine Hecke algebras. We use it to construct a large class of Markov traces on affine Yokonuma-Hecke algebras, and in turn, to produce invariants for links in the solid torus. By restriction, this construction contains the construction of invariants for classical links from classical Yokonuma-Hecke algebras. In general, the obtained invariants form an infinite family of 3-variables polynomials. As a consequence of the construction via the isomorphism, we reduce the number of invariants to study, given the number of connected components of a link. In particular, if the link is a classical link with N components, we show that N invariants generate the whole family.
L. Poulain d'Andecycan deform the standard surjective morphism from the framed braid group algebra to its quotient Y d,n into a family of morphisms (depending on γ) respecting the braid relations and the Markov conditions. Another way of interpreting the parameter γ is that it modifies the quadratic relation satisfied by the generators of Y d,n . Its existence explains (or is reflected in) the fact that different presentations for Y d,n were used before. Juyumaya-Lambropoulou invariants correspond to certain specialisations of this parameter γ, depending on the chosen presentation. So the parameter γ unifies every possible choices and yields more general invariants. It is indicated in [3, Remark 8.5] that changing the presentation seems to give a non-equivalent topological invariant.2. In this paper, we consider the affine Yokonuma-Hecke algebras (of type GL), denoted Y d,n . They were introduced in [1] in connections with the representation theory and the Jucys-Murphy elements of the classical Yokonuma-Hecke algebras. Our main goal here is to generalise for Y d,n the whole approach to link invariants via the isomorphism theorem. The invariants are in general for links in the solid torus. The classical links are naturally contained in the solid torus links and, restricted to them, the obtained invariants correspond to the invariants obtained in [5] from Y d,n (naturally seen as a subalgebra of Y d,n ). Specialising the parameter γ, we identify the Juyumaya-Lambropoulou invariants among them. For those invariants, we emphasize that we recover some known results [3] by a different method and furthermore obtain some new results already in this particular case.We start with an isomorphism between the algebra Y d,n and a direct sum of matrix algebras with coefficients in tensor products of affine Hecke algebras. As done in [4], the isomorphism can be proved repeating the same arguments as for Y d,n (see [5] where the proof for Y d,n is presented, as a particular case of a more general result by G. Lusztig [8, §34]). Here we sketch a short different proof for Y d,n using the known result for Y d,n . We also prove the analogous theorem for the cyclotomic quotients of Y d,n (with A...