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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

Knotoids were introduced by V. Turaev as open-ended knot-type diagrams that generalize knots. Turaev defined a two-variable polynomial invariant of knotoids which encompasses a generalization of the Jones knot polynomial to knotoids. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Deniz Kutluay

An ascent sequence is one consisting of non-negative integers in which the size of each letter is restricted by the number of ascents preceding it in the sequence. Ascent sequences have recently been shown to be related to (2+2)-free posets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Toufik Mansour , Mark Shattuck

Starting from some considerations we make about the relations between certain difference statistics and the classical permutation statistics we study permutations whose inversion number and excedance difference coincide. It turns out that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Astrid Reifegerste

It has been folklore for several years in the knot theory community that certain integrals on configuration space, originally motivated by perturbation theory for the Chern-Simons field theory, converge and yield knot invariants. This was…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Dylan P. Thurston

The notion of a braided chord diagram is introduced and studied. An equivalence relation is given which identifies all braidings of a fixed chord diagram. It is shown that finite-type invariants are stratified by braid index for knots which…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joan S. Birman , Rolland Trapp

Parity mappings from the chords of a Gauss diagram to the integers is defined. The parity of the chords is used to construct families of invariants of Gauss diagrams and virtual knots. One family consists of degree $n$ Vassiliev invariants.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-15 H. A. Dye

In this paper we describe a novel a procedure to build a linear order from an arbitrary poset which (i) preserves the original ordering and (ii) allows to extend monotonic and antitonic mappings defined over the original poset to monotonic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Nicolas Madrid Labrador , Umberto Straccia

We consider an analogue of well-known Casson knot invariant for knotoids. We start with a direct analogue of the classical construction which gives two different integer-valued knotoid invariants and then focus on its homology extension.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Vladimir Tarkaev

In 1999, Khovanov showed that a link invariant known as the Jones polynomial is the Euler characteristic of a homology theory. The knot categorification problem is to find a general construction of knot homology groups, and to explain their…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Mina Aganagic

Vassiliev invariants can be studied by studying the spaces of chord diagrams associated with singular knots. To these chord diagrams are associated the intersection graphs of the chords. We extend results of Chmutov, Duzhin and Lando to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Blake Mellor

Ascent sequences have received a lot of attention in recent years in connection with (2 + 2)-free posets and other combinatorial objects. Here, we first show bijectively that analogous repetition sequences are counted by the Bell numbers,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-07 David Callan

We construct smooth concordance invariants of knots which take the form of piecewise linear maps from [0,1] to R, one for each n greater than or equal to 2. These invariants arise from sl(n) knot cohomology. We verify some properties which…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Lukas Lewark , Andrew Lobb

According to the idea of Ozsv\'ath, Stipsicz and Szab\'o, we define the knot invariant $\Upsilon$ without the holomorphic theory, using constructions from grid homology. We develop a homology theory using grid diagrams, and show that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Viktória Földvári

Knotoid theory is a generalization of knot theory introduced by Turaev in 2012. In recent years, various invariants of knotoids have been studied. In this paper, we mainly discuss unknotting moves and unknotting numbers of plus-welded…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Fengling Li , Andrei Vesnin , Xuan Yang

In this paper we introduce {\em weak ascent sequences}, a class of number sequences that properly contains ascent sequences. We show how these sequences uniquely encode each of the following objects: permutations avoiding a particular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Beáta Bényi , Anders Claesson , Mark Dukes

A Gauss diagram is a simple, combinatorial way to present a knot. It is known that any Vassiliev invariant may be obtained from a Gauss diagram formula that involves counting (with signs and multiplicities) subdiagrams of certain…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Michael Brandenbursky

We investigate linear and additive codes in partially ordered Hamming-like spaces that satisfy the extension property, meaning that automorphisms of ideals extend to automorphisms of the poset. The codes are naturally described in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Alexander Barg , Luciano V. Felix , Marcelo Firer , Marcos V. P. Spreafico

Distribution matching transforms independent and Bernoulli(1/2) distributed input bits into a sequence of output symbols with a desired distribution. Fixed-to-fixed length, invertible, and low complexity encoders and decoders based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Patrick Schulte , Georg Böcherer

We prove that a knot is the unknot if and only if its reduced Khovanov cohomology has rank 1. The proof has two steps. We show first that there is a spectral sequence beginning with the reduced Khovanov cohomology and abutting to a knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-25 P. B. Kronheimer , T. S. Mrowka