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We introduce the notion of mc-biquandles, algebraic structures which have possibly distinct biquandle operations at single-component and multi-component crossings. These structures provide computable homset invariants for classical and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Seonmi Choi , Sam Nelson

We show that ribbon rational homology cobordism is a partial order within the class of irreducible 3-manifolds. This makes essential use of the methods recently employed by Ian Agol to show that ribbon knot concordance is a partial order.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Stefan Friedl , Filip Misev , Raphael Zentner

Non-classical virtual knots may have non-isomorphic upper and lower quandles. We exploit this property to define the quandle difference invariant, which can detect non-classicality by comparing the numbers of homomorphisms into a finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Natasha Harrell , Sam Nelson

The paper is devoted to finding the colorings of the edges of the 1-skeleton of triangulations of the 2-sphere in three colors so that for each face all three of its sides have different colors. First, by the method of adding one vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Oleg Akchurin , Svitlana Bilun , Alexandr Prishlyak

Duality of curves is one of the important aspects of the ``classical'' algebraic geometry. In this paper, using this foundation, the duality of tropical polynomials is constructed to introduce the duality of Non-Archimedean curves. Using…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zur Izhakian

Three new knot invariants are defined using cocycles of the generalized quandle homology theory that was proposed by Andruskiewitsch and Gra\~na. We specialize that theory to the case when there is a group action on the coefficients. First,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Scott Carter , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Matias Graña , Masahico Saito

We study quantum systems with broken symmetry that can be modelled as cyclic three-level atoms with coexisting one- and two-photon transitions. They can be selectively optically excited to any state. As an example, we show that left- and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-28 Yong Li , C. Bruder

The coalescence of three levels has particular attractive features. Even though it may be difficult to realise such event in the laboratory (three additional real parameters must be adjusted), to take up the challenge seems worthwhile. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. D. Heiss

I investigated the capability of medial quandle, quandle whose operation satisfying that $(a_1*b_1)*(a_2*b_2)=(a_1*a_2)*(b_1*b_2)$, to detect causality in (2+1)-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetime by determining if they can…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Hongxu Chen

In 2000, Thomas Fink and Young Mao studied neck ties and, with certain assumptions, found 85 different ways to tie a neck tie. They gave a formal language which describes how a tie is made, giving a sequence of moves for each neck tie. The…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Elizabeth Denne , Corinne Joireman , Allison Young

In CJKLS quandle cohomology is used to produce invariants for particular embeddings of codimension two; 2-cocycles give to invariants for (classical) knots and 3-cocycles give rise to invariants for knotted surfaces. This is done by way of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pedro Lopes

Balanced colorings of networks classify robust synchrony patterns -- those that are defined by subspaces that are flow-invariant for all admissible ODEs. In symmetric networks the obvious balanced colorings are orbit colorings, where colors…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Ian Stewart

We adapt Seifert's algorithm for classical knots and links to the setting of tri-plane diagrams for bridge trisected surfaces in the 4-sphere. Our approach allows for the construction of a Seifert solid that is described by a Heegaard…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jason Joseph , Jeffrey Meier , Maggie Miller , Alexander Zupan

We enhance the quandle coloring quiver invariant of oriented knots and links with quandle modules. This results in a two-variable polynomial invariant with specializes to the previous quandle module polynomial invariant as well as to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Karma Istanbouli , Sam Nelson

We completely characterize the coloring quivers of general torus links by dihedral quandles by first exhausting all possible numbers of colorings, followed by determining the interconnections between colorings in each case. The quiver is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Mohamed Elhamdadi , Brooke Jones , Minghui Liu

A quandle is an algebra with two binary operations satisfying three conditions which are related to Reidemeister moves in knot theory. In this paper we introduce the notion of the (canonical) tensor product of a quandle. The tensor product…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Seiichi Kamada

A symmetric quandle is a quandle with a good involution. For a knot in \$R^3\$, a knotted surface in \$R^4\$ or an \$n\$-manifold knot in \$R^{n+2}\$, the knot symmetric quandle is defined. We introduce the notion of a symmetric quandle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Seiichi Kamada

Norine's antipodal-colouring conjecture, in a form given by Feder and Subi, asserts that whenever the edges of the discrete cube are 2-coloured there must exist a path between two opposite vertices along which there is at most one colour…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-01 Vojtěch Dvořák

We define new invariants of knots by means of quandle colorings and longitudinal information. These invariants can be applied to a tangle embedding problem and recognizing non-classical virtual knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Maciej Niebrzydowski

The present paper follows the computational approach to 3-manifold classification via edge-coloured graphs, already performed by several authors with respect to orientable 3-manifolds up to 28 coloured tetrahedra, non-orientable 3-manifolds…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-02 M. R. Casali , P. Cristofori