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We study the properties of glued knots, a sub-class of real rational knots, that can be constructed by gluing ellipses. We define an invariant called the gluing degree and relate it to various classical properties of knots and classify all…

Generalizing Howie and Greene's characterization of alternating knots, we give a topological characterization of almost alternating knots.

I briefly discuss a method of obtaining distinct classes of topologically equivalent knots by developing appropriate computer programs.

It was asked by J.Birman, Williams, and L.Rudolph whether nontrivial Lorentz knots have always positive signature. Lorentz knots are examples of positive braids (in our convention they have all crossings negative so they are negative…

Hyperfinite knots, or limits of equivalence classes of knots induced by a knot invariant taking values in a metric space, were introduced in a previous article by the author. In this article, we present new examples of hyperfinite knots…

The present paper is an addendum to "Spherical structures on torus knots and links", arXiv:1008.0312, and concerns more general case of torus knot and link cone-manifolds.

In this paper we summarise the work discussed in Ref. [1] and [2] (q-alg/9505003), in which we introduced a method helpful in solving the problem of knot classification. We also present results obtained since then.

Knots and links which are closed 3-braids are a very special class. Like 2-bridge knots and links, they are simple enough to admit a complete classification. At the same time they are rich enough to serve as a source of examples on which,…

We classify positive transversal torus knots in tight contact structures up to transversal isotopy.

We show several relations between local moves on 1-dimensional knots and those on high dimensional knots related by products of knots.

The ropelength of a knot is the quotient of its length and its thickness, the radius of the largest embedded normal tube around the knot. We prove existence and regularity for ropelength minimizers in any knot or link type; these are…

Twisted torus links are given by twisting a subset of strands on a closed braid representative of a torus link. T--links are a natural generalization, given by repeated positive twisting. We establish a one-to-one correspondence between…

Piecewise-linear virtual knots are discussed and classified up to edge index six.

This is a survey of knot contact homology, with an emphasis on topological, algebraic, and combinatorial aspects.

The curves of zero intensity of a complex optical field can form knots and links: optical vortex knots. Both theoretical constructions and experiments have so far been restricted to the very small families of torus knots or lemniscate…

We give a brief survey of some known results on intrinsically linked or knotted graphs.

We review a constructions of knots from elements of the Thompson groups due to Vaughan Jones, which comes in two flavours: oriented and unoriented.

We establish a characterization of adequate knots in terms of the degree of their colored Jones polynomial. We show that, assuming the Strong Slope conjecture, our characterization can be reformulated in terms of "Jones slopes" of knots and…

This paper has been withdrawn by the author. The author found that the main results here were already obtained by K. Taniyama and A. Yasuhara `On $C$-distance of knots. Kobe J. Math. 11 (1994), no. 1, 117--127. MR1309997 (95j:57010)'. He…

We obtain the full list of Goeritz invariants of all torus knots and links.