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We define enhancements of the quandle counting invariant for knots and links with a finite labeling quandle Q embedded in the quandle of units of a Lie algebra \mathfrak{a} using Lie ideals. We provide examples demonstrating that the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Gillian Roxanne Grindstaff , Sam Nelson

We extend the quandle cocycle invariant to the context of stuck links. More precisely, we define an invariant of stuck links by assigning Boltzmann weights at both classical and stuck crossings. As an application, we define a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Jose Ceniceros , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Brendan Magill , Gabriana Rosario

We look into computational aspects of two classical knot invariants. We look for ways of simplifying the computation of the coloring invariant and of the Alexander module. We support our ideas with explicit computations on pretzel knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pedro Lopes

We define numerical link-homotopy invariants of link maps of any number of components, which naturally generalize the Kirk invariant. The Kirk invariant is a link-homotopy invariant of 2-component link maps given by linking numbers of loops…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Benjamin Audoux , Jean-Baptiste Meilhan , Akira Yasuhara

I present a summary of the recent progress made in field and string theory which has led to a reformulation of quantum-group polynomial invariants for knots and links into new polynomial invariants whose coefficients can be described in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose M. F. Labastida

We revisit finite racks and quandles using a perspective based on permutations which can aid in the understanding of the structure. As a consequence we recover old results and prove new ones. We also present and analyze several examples.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pedro Lopes , Dennis Roseman

We explore a family of invariants obtained from linking numbers. This is a family of Kauffman finite type invariants.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-07-08 H. A. Dye

Quantum phases can be classified by topological invariants, which take on discrete values capturing global information about the quantum state. Over the past decades, these invariants have come to play a central role in describing matter,…

We use the structure of skew braces to enhance the biquandle counting invariant for virtual knots and links for finite biquandles defined from skew braces. We introduce two new invariants: a single-variable polynomial using skew brace…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Melody Chang , Sam Nelson

We introduce and study so-called self-indexed graphs. These are (oriented) finite graphs endowed with a map from the set of edges to the set of vertices. Such graphs naturally arise from classical knot and link diagrams. In fact, the graphs…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matias Graña , Vladimir Turaev

We automate the process of machine learning correlations between knot invariants. For nearly 200,000 distinct sets of input knot invariants together with an output invariant, we attempt to learn the output invariant by training a neural…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Jessica Craven , Mark Hughes , Vishnu Jejjala , Arjun Kar

We review the recent developments of quantum invariants of 3-manifolds and links: $\hat{Z}$ and $F_L$. They are $q$-series invariants originated from mathematical physics. They exhibit rich features, for example, quantum modularity,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 John Chae

We offer a pedestrian level review of the wall-crossing invariants. The story begins from the scattering theory in quantum mechanics where the spectrum reshuffling can be related to permutations of S-matrices. In non-trivial situations,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Galakhov , A. Mironov , A. Morozov

We define a new algebraic structure called a \emph{pointed rack} and use it to construct ambient isotopy invariants of $ n $-braids. We first introduce an integer-valued invariant of braids using pointed racks. This is then strengthened by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Angel Apollos , Jose Ceniceros

We introduce augmented biracks and define a (co)homology theory associated to augmented biracks. The new homology theory extends the previously studied Yang-Baxter homology with a combinatorial formulation for the boundary map and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-09 Jose Ceniceros , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Matthew Green , Sam Nelson

In this short survey we review recent results dealing with algebraic structures (quandles, psyquandles, and singquandles) related to singular knot theory. We first explore the singquandles counting invariant and then consider several recent…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Jose Ceniceros , Indu R. Churchill , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Mustafa Hajij

For an oriented knot $K$, we construct a functor from the category of pointed quandles to the category of quandles in three different ways. We also extend the quandle cocycle invariants of knots by using these quandle-valued invariant of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-11 Tetsuya Ito

We define a nontrivial mod 2 valued additive concordance invariant defined on the torsion subgroup of the knot concordance group using involutive knot Floer package. For knots not contained in its kernel, we prove that their iterated…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Sungkyung Kang , JungHwan Park

We show that a variation of Milnor's $\bar\mu$-invariants, the so-called Campbell-Hausdorff invariants introduced recently by Stefan Papadima, are of finite type with respect to {\it marked singular links}. These link invariants are…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Xiao-Song Lin

Finite-order invariants of knots in arbitrary 3-manifolds (including non-orientable ones) are constructed and studied by methods of the topology of discriminant sets. Obstructions to the integrability of admissible weight systems to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Victor A. Vassiliev