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For any virtual link, a class of new links can be defined called stacks, in which copies of the virtual link are placed on top of one another. The resulting virtual link depends only on the virtual isotopy class of the original link, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Blake K Winter

For a graph G embedded in an orientable surface \Sigma, we consider associated links L(G) in the thickened surface \Sigma \times I. We relate the HOMFLY polynomial of L(G) to the recently defined Bollobas-Riordan polynomial of a ribbon…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Iain Moffatt

An open question akin to the slice-ribbon conjecture asks whether every ribbon knot can be represented as a symmetric union. Next to this basic existence question sits the question of uniqueness of such representations. Eisermann and Lamm…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Carlo Collari , Paolo Lisca

In this paper we develop a structure called Link Algebra, in which we present a Set with two binary operations and an axiom system developed from the study of graph theory and set/antiset theory, sowing main theorems and definitions. Once…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2011-03-22 Alfonso Bustamante

Recently, Chmutov introduced the partial duality of ribbon graphs, which can be regarded as a generalization of the classical Euler-Poincar\'e duality. The partial-dual genus polynomial $^\partial\varepsilon_G(z)$ is an enumeration of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Zhiyun Cheng

The paper contains an essentially self-contained treatment of Khovanov homology, Khovanov-Lee homology as well as the Rasmussen invariant for virtual knots and virtual knot cobordisms which directly applies to classical knot and classical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Heather A. Dye , Aaron Kaestner , Louis H. Kauffman

In this article, we explore a polynomial invariant for Legendrian knots which is a natural extension of Jones polynomial for (topological) knots. To this end, a new type of skein relation is introduced for the front projections of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Dheeraj Kulkarni , Monika Yadav

We present a simple proof for the universality of invariant and equivariant tensorized graph neural networks. Our approach considers a restricted intermediate hypothetical model named Graph Homomorphism Model to reach the universality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Takanori Maehara , Hoang NT

Multi-relational graph is a ubiquitous and important data structure, allowing flexible representation of multiple types of interactions and relations between entities. Similar to other graph-structured data, link prediction is one of the…

We explain how to compute the Jones polynomial of a link from one of its grid diagrams and we observe a connection between Bigelow's homological definition of the Jones polynomial and Kauffman's definition of the Jones polynomial.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Jean-Marie Droz , Emmanuel Wagner

The Jones polynomial and Khovanov homology of a classical link are invariants that depend upon an initial choice of orientation for the link. In this paper, we give a Khovanov homology theory for unoriented virtual links. The graded Euler…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Scott Baldridge , Louis H. Kauffman , Ben McCarty

We propose a gauge model of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and its nonabelian generalization from which we derive knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial. Our approach is inspired by the work of Witten who derived knot invariants from…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sze Kui Ng

This paper is an introduction to the language of Feynman Diagrams. We use Reshetikhin-Turaev graphical calculus to define Feynman diagrams and prove that asymptotic expansions of Gaussian integrals can be written as a sum over a suitable…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-09-30 Domenico Fiorenza , Riccardo Murri

The theory of dependency graphs is a powerful toolbox to prove asymptotic normality of sums of random variables. In this article, we introduce a more general notion of weighted dependency graphs and give normality criteria in this context.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Valentin Féray

It is well-known that the Jones polynomial of an alternating knot is closely related to the Tutte polynomial of a special graph obtained from a regular projection of the knot. Relying on the results of Bollob\'as and Riordan, we introduce a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Y. Diao , G. Hetyei , K. Hinson

We introduce a novel model of multipartite entanglement based on topological links, generalizing the graph/hypergraph entropy cone program. We demonstrate that there exist link representations of entropy vectors which provably cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Ning Bao , Newton Cheng , Sergio Hernández-Cuenca , Vincent Paul Su

This paper defines versions of the Jones polynomial and Khovanov homology by using several maps from the set of Gauss diagrams to its variant. Through calculation of some examples, this paper also shows that these versions behave…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Noboru Ito

We assign a new polynomial to any checkerboard-colorable 4-valent virtual graph in terms of its Euler circuit expansion. This provides a new combinatorial formulation of the Kauffman-Jones polynomial for checkerboard-colorable virtual…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Hamid Abchir , Khaled Qazaqzeh , Mohammed Sabak

We construct graph-valued analogues of the Kuperberg sl(3) and G2 invariants for virtual knots. The restriction of the sl(3) or G2 invariants for classical knots coincides with the usual Homflypt sl(3) invariant and G2 invariants. For…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-11 Louis Hirsch Kauffman , Vassily Olegovich Manturov

We establish a Kauffman-Murasugi-Thistlethwaite-type theorem for alternating knots in a solid torus. Specifically, we show that any dotted-reduced alternating diagram of a knot in a handlebody realizes the minimal crossing number, and that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Lizzie Buchanan , Tanushree Shah