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Virtual knot theory is a generalization (discovered by the author in 1996) of knot theory to the study of all oriented Gauss codes. (Classical knot theory is a study of planar Gauss codes.) Graph theory studies non-planar graphs via…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis H. Kauffman

We define a notion of finite type invariants for links with a fixed linking matrix. We show that Milnor's triple link homotopy invariant is a finite type invariant, of type 1, in this sense. We also generalize the approach to Milnor's…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Blake Mellor

We introduce the multiplexing of a crossing, replacing a classical crossing of a virtual link diagram with multiple crossings which is a mixture of classical and virtual. For integers $m_{i}$ $(i=1,\ldots,n)$ and an ordered $n$-component…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Haruko A. Miyazawa , Kodai Wada , Akira Yasuhara

This paper extends the construction of invariants for virtual knots to virtual long knots and introduces two new invariant modules of virtual long knots. Several interesting features are described that distinguish virtual long knots from…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-06-01 Andrew Bartholomew , Roger Fenn , Naoko Kamada , Seiichi Kamada

We generalize the index polynomial invariant to the case of virtual tangles. Three polynomial invariants result from this generalization; we give a brief overview of their definition and some basic properties.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Nicolas Petit

We introduce an infinite family of quantum enhancements of the biquandle counting invariant we call biquandle virtual brackets. Defined in terms of skein invariants of biquandle colored oriented knot and link diagrams with values in a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Sam Nelson , Kanako Oshiro , Ayaka Shimizu , Yoshiro Yaguchi

We consider here the category of diffeological vector pseudo-bundles, and study a possible extension of classical differential geometric tools on finite dimensional vector bundles, namely, the group of automorphisms, the frame bundle, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Jean-Pierre Magnot

This paper generalize [7](math.GT/0601291): We construct new links invariants from g, a type I basic classical Lie superalgebra. The construction uses the existence of an unexpected replacement of the vanishing quantum dimension of typical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-01 Nathan Geer , Bertrand Patureau-Mirand

We discuss Vassiliev invariants for virtual knots, expanding upon the theory of quantum virtual knot invariants developed in arXiv:1509.00578. In particular, following the theory of quantum invariants we work with 'rotational' virtual…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Wout Moltmaker , Louis H. Kauffman

A weak chord index $Ind'$ is constructed for self crossing points of virtual links. Then a new writhe polynomial $W$ of virtual links is defined by using $Ind'$. $W$ is a generalization of writhe polynomial defined in [6]. Based on $W$,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Mengjian Xu

Virtual links are generalizations of classical links that can be represented by links embedded in a ``thickened'' surface $\Sigma\times I$, product of a Riemann surface of genus $h$ with an interval. In this paper, we show that virtual…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Zinn-Justin , J. -B. Zuber

We introduce twelve polynomial invariants for long virtual knots, called intersection polynomials, extending and refining the three intersection polynomials for virtual knots. They are defined via intersection numbers of cycles on a closed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Takuji Nakamura , Yasutaka Nakanishi , Shin Satoh , Kodai Wada

In the present paper, we describe new approaches for constructing virtual knot invariants. The main background of this paper comes from formulating and bringing together the ideas of biquandle (Kauffman and Radford) the virtual quandle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis Kauffman , Vassily Olegovich Manturov

In this paper we show how generalized quaternions, including 2X2 matrices, can be used to find solutions of a non-commuting equation intimately connected with braid groups. These solutions can then be used to find polynomial invariants of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Roger Fenn

We formulate conjectures generalizing some known results to the category of virtual Legendrian knots. This includes statements relating virtual Legendrian knots to ordinary Legendrian knots, non-existence of positive virtual Legendrian self…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Vladimir Chernov , Rustam Sadykov

In this note we define and study graph invariants generalizing to higher dimension the maximum degree of a vertex and the vertex-connectivity (our $0$-dimensional cases). These are known to coincide almost surely in any regime for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Eric Babson , Volkmar Welker

This paper discusses a generalization of virtual knot theory that we call multi-virtual knot theory. Multi-virtual knot theory uses a multiplicity of types of virtual crossings. As we will explain, this multiplicity is motivated by the way…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Louis H Kauffman

In hypercube approach to correlation functions in Chern-Simons theory (knot polynomials) the central role is played by the numbers of cycles, in which the link diagram is decomposed under different resolutions. Certain functions of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-20 A. Morozov , An. Morozov , A. Popolitov

The Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant of classical link diagrams is generalized to virtual link diagrams. This invariant is unchanged by the framed Reidemeister moves and the Kirby calculus. As a result, it is also an invariant of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-07-15 H. A. Dye , Louis H. Kauffman

We use virtual knot theory to detect the non-invertibility of some classical links in $\mathbb{S}^3$. These links appear in the study of virtual covers. Briefly, a virtual cover associates a virtual knot $\upsilon$ to a knot $K$ in a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Micah Chrisman