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We refine the Polyak-Viro Gauss diagram formula for the Vassiliev invariant of order two in a very simple way for the 2-cable of a framed long knot. Surprisingly, the resulting isotopy invariant of framed knots can detect already the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Thomas Fiedler

We construct a Hennings type logarithmic invariant for restricted quantum $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$ at a $2\mathsf{p}$-th root of unity. This quantum group $U$ is not braided, but factorizable. The invariant is defined for a pair: a 3-manifold $M$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Anna Beliakova , Christian Blanchet , Nathan Geer

M. Khovanov and L. Rozansky gave a categorification of the HOMFLY-PT polynomial. This study is a generalization of the Khovanov-Rozansky homology. We define a homology associated to the quantum $(sl_n,\land V_n)$ link invariant, where…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Yasuyoshi Yonezawa

We show that two knots have matching Vassiliev invariants of order less than n if and only if they are equivalent modulo the nth group of the lower central series of some pure braid group, thus characterizing Vassiliev's knot invariants in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Theodore B. Stanford

Khovanov homology is a recently introduced invariant of oriented links in $\mathbb{R}^3$. It categorifies the Jones polynomial in the sense that the (graded) Euler characteristic of the Khovanov homology is a version of the Jones polynomial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Alexander N. Shumakovitch

In the preprint of V. Bardakov, T. Kozlovskaya, D. Talalaev (Self-distributive bialgebras, arXiv:2501.19152) it was formulated a problem of classification of self-distributive bialgebras and was given classification of two-dimensional…

We study the knot invariant based on the quantum dilogarithm function. This invariant can be regarded as a non-compact analogue of Kashaev's invariant, or the colored Jones invariant, and is defined by an integral form. The 3-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuhiro Hikami

We introduce a Poincar\'{e} polynomial with two-variable $t$ and $x$ for knots, derived from Khovanov homology, where the specialization $(t, x)$ $=$ $(1, -1)$ is a Vassiliev invariant of order $n$. Since for every $n$, there exist…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Noboru Ito , Masaya Kameyama

In this paper, we extend the definition of a knotoid that was introduced by Turaev, to multi-linkoids that consist of a number of knot and knotoid components. We study invariants of multi-linkoids that lie in a closed orientable surface,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Boštjan Gabrovšek , Neslihan Gügümcü

The knot coloring polynomial defined by Eisermann for a finite pointed group is generalized to an infinite pointed group as the longitudinal mapping invariant of a knot. In turn this can be thought of as a generalization of the quandle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-27 W. Edwin Clark , Masahico Saito

We introduce quiver representation-valued invariants of oriented virtual knots and links associated to a choice of finite virtual biquandle, abelian group, set of virtual Boltzmann weights, commutative unital ring and set of virtual…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Alexander Bishop , Jose Ceniceros , Sam Nelson

We establish a connection between knot theory and cluster algebras via representation theory. To every knot diagram (or link diagram), we associate a cluster algebra by constructing a quiver with potential. The rank of the cluster algebra…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Véronique Bazier-Matte , Ralf Schiffler

We derive two geometric approaches to categorification of quantum invariants of links associated to an arbitrary compact simple Lie group $^L{G}$. In part I, we describe the first approach, based on an equivariant derived category of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-25 Mina Aganagic

This article presents a formula for products of Schubert classes in the quantum cohomology ring of the Grassmannian. We introduce a generalization of Schur symmetric polynomials for shapes that are naturally embedded in a torus. Then we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Postnikov

Khovanov homology is a topological knot invariant that categorifies the Jones polynomial, recognizes the unknot, and is conjectured to appear as an observable in $4D$ supersymmetric Yang--Mills theory. Despite its rich mathematical and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Alexander Schmidhuber , Michele Reilly , Paolo Zanardi , Seth Lloyd , Aaron Lauda

This article introduces a natural extension of colouring numbers of knots, called colouring polynomials, and studies their relationship to Yang-Baxter invariants and quandle 2-cocycle invariants. For a knot K in the 3-sphere let \pi_K be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-11-20 Michael Eisermann

The conormal lift of a link $K$ in $\R^3$ is a Legendrian submanifold $\Lambda_K$ in the unit cotangent bundle $U^* \R^3$ of $\R^3$ with contact structure equal to the kernel of the Liouville form. Knot contact homology, a topological link…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tobias Ekholm , John Etnyre , Lenhard Ng , Michael Sullivan

The recently conjectured knots-quivers correspondence relates gauge theoretic invariants of a knot $K$ in the 3-sphere to representation theory of a quiver $Q_{K}$ associated to the knot. In this paper we provide geometric and physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-02 Tobias Ekholm , Piotr Kucharski , Pietro Longhi

We introduce a new combinatorial method to encode knots and links with applications to knot invariants. Clasp diagrams defined in this paper are combinatorial blueprints for building knot diagrams out of full twists on two strings rather…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Jacob Mostovoy , Michael Polyak

A generalization of the Lorenz equations is proposed where the variables take values in a Lie algebra. The finite dimensionality of the representation encodes the quantum fluctuations, while the non-linear nature of the equations can…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-01 J. Tranchida , P. Thibaudeau , S. Nicolis