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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

In this short survey article we collect the current state of the art in the nascent field of \textit{quantum enhancements}, a type of knot invariant defined by collecting values of quantum invariants of knots with colorings by various…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Sam Nelson

We define counting and cocycle enhancement invariants of virtual knots using parity biquandles. These invariants are determined by pairs consisting of a biquandle 2-cocycle \phi^0 and a map \phi^1 with certain compatibility conditions…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Aaron Kaestner , Sam Nelson , Leo Selker

Biquandle brackets define invariants of classical and virtual knots and links using skein invariants of biquandle-colored knots and links. Biquandle coloring quivers categorify the biquandle counting invariant in the sense of defining…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Pia Cosma Falkenburg , Sam Nelson

In the present paper, we study the finite type invariants of Gauss words. In the Polyak algebra techniques, we reduce the determination of the group structure to transformation of a matrix into its Smith normal form and we give the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Tomonori Fukunaga , Takayuki Yamaguchi , Takaaki Yamanoi

We generalize the notion of the quandle polynomial to the case of singquandles. We show that the singquandle polynomial is an invariant of finite singquandles. We also construct a singular link invariant from the singquandle polynomial and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Jose Ceniceros , Indu R. Churchill , Mohamed Elhamdadi

We describe a way of representing finite biquandles with n elements as 2n x 2n block matrices. Any finite biquandle defines an invariant of virtual knots through counting homomorphisms. The counting invariants of non-quandle biquandles can…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sam Nelson , John Vo

We define a family of generalizations of the two-variable quandle polynomial. These polynomial invariants generalize in a natural way to eight-variable polynomial invariants of finite biquandles. We use these polynomials to define a family…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Sam Nelson

Introduced in arXiv:2211.12606, biquandle arrow weight invariants are enhancements of the biquandle counting invariant for oriented virtual and classical knots defined from biquandle-colored Gauss diagrams using a tensor over an abelian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Sam Nelson , Migiwa Sakurai

We define invariants of oriented surface-links by enhancing the biquandle counting invariant using \textit{biquandle modules}, algebraic structures defined in terms of biquandle actions on commutative rings analogous to Alexander…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Yewon Joung , Sam Nelson

A birack is an algebraic structure with axioms encoding the blackboard-framed Reidemeister moves, incorporating quandles, racks, strong biquandles and semiquandles as special cases. In this paper we extend the counting invariant for finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-12-23 Sam Nelson

We provide a complete classification of the singularities of cluster algebras of finite type with trivial coefficients. Alongside, we develop a constructive desingularization of these singularities via blowups in regular centers over fields…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Angelica Benito , Eleonore Faber , Hussein Mourtada , Bernd Schober

We define a two-variable polynomial invariant of finite quandles. In many cases this invariant completely determines the algebraic structure of the quandle up to isomorphism. We use this polynomial to define a family of link invariants…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-08-13 Sam Nelson

In this short survey we review recent results dealing with algebraic structures (quandles, psyquandles, and singquandles) related to singular knot theory. We first explore the singquandles counting invariant and then consider several recent…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Jose Ceniceros , Indu R. Churchill , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Mustafa Hajij

We enhance the pointed quandle counting invariant of linkoids through the use of quivers analogously to quandle coloring quivers. This allows us to generalize the in-degree polynomial invariant of links to linkoids. Additionally, we…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Jose Ceniceros , Max Klivans

We introduce an infinite family of quiver representation-valued invariants of classical, virtual and surface-knots and links associated to a choice of finite biquandle, commutative unital ring, biquandle module and set of biquandle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yewon Joung , Sam Nelson

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an enhancement of a finite triangulated category. Moreover, we show that enhancements are unique when they exist, up to Morita equivalence.

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Fernando Muro

We study the quandle counting invariant for a certain family of finite quandles with trivial orbit subquandles. We show how these invariants determine the linking number of classical two-component links up to sign.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-08-13 Natasha Harrell , Sam Nelson

We introduce an associative algebra Z[X,S] associated to a birack shadow and define enhancements of the birack counting invariant for classical knots and links via representations of Z[X,S] known as shadow modules. We provide examples which…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-06-03 Sam Nelson , Katie Pelland

In this paper, we build on the biquasiles and dual graph diagrams introduced in arXiv:1610.06969. We introduce \textit{biquasile Boltzmann weights} that enhance the previous knot coloring invariant defined in terms of finite biquasiles and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-09-25 WonHyuk Choi , Deanna Needell , Sam Nelson