Vassiliev invariants for virtual knotoids
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce the 0-smoothing invariant of virtual knotoids constructed from local modification at classical crossings, which take values in a free -module generated by non-oriented flat virtual knotoids. We prove that is a Vassiliev invariant of order one. It was observed by Henrich that smoothing invariant she constructed for virtual knots provides less information than the gluing invariant. We demonstrate the same property for the 0-smoothing invariant of virtual knotoids: provides less information than the gluing invariant introduced by Petit. To prove this result, we use the extension of the singular based matrix invariant originally introduced by Turaev for singular virtual strings.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.20269,
title = {Vassiliev invariants for virtual knotoids},
author = {Siqi Ding and Xiaobo Jin and Fengchun Lei and Fengling Li and Andrei Vesnin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20269},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
32 pages, 33 figures. Comments are welcome!