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We explore free knot diagrams, which are projections of knots into the plane which don't record over/under data at crossings. We consider the combinatorial question of which free knot diagrams give which knots and with what probability.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Andrew Ducharme , Emily Peters

We consider knot theories possessing a {\em parity}: each crossing is decreed {\em odd} or {\em even} according to some universal rule. If this rule satisfies some simple axioms concerning the behaviour under Reidemeister moves, this leads…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Vassily Olegovich Manturov

Grid diagrams with their relatively simple mathematical formalism provide a convenient way to generate and model projections of various knots. It has been an open question whether these 2D diagrams can be used to model a complex 3D process…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-16 Agnese Barbensi , Daniele Celoria , Heather A. Harrington , Andrzej Stasiak , Dorothy Buck

For each $n,r \geq 0$, let $KG(n,r)$ denote the Kneser Graph; that whose vertices are labeled by $r$-element subsets of $n$, and whose edges indicate that the corresponding subsets are disjoint. Fixing $r$ and allowing $n$ to vary, one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Eric Ramos , Graham White

In this paper we introduce a representation of knots and links called a cube diagram. We show that a property of a cube diagram is a link invariant if and only if the property is invariant under two types of cube diagram operations. A knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-05-24 Scott Baldridge , Adam Lowrance

We define and study a model of winding for non-colliding particles in finite trees. We prove that the asymptotic behavior of this statistic satisfies a central limiting theorem, analogous to similar results on winding of bounded particles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-03 David A. Levin , Eric Ramos , Benjamin Young

In this study of the Reidemeister moves within the classical knot theory, we focus on hard diagrams of knots and links, categorizing them as either rigid or shaky based on their adaptability to certain moves. We establish that every link…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Michal Jablonowski

We investigate the use of discrete-time quantum walks to sample from an almost-uniform distribution, in the absence of any external source of randomness. Integers are encoded on the vertices of a cycle graph, and a quantum walker evolves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Marco Radaelli , Claudia Benedetti , Stefano Olivares

Knots are fascinating topological structures that have been observed in various contexts, ranging from micro-worlds to macro-systems, and are conjectured to play a fundamental role in their respective fields. In order to characterize their…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Tian Chen , Xingen Zheng , Qingsong Pei , Deyuan Zou , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Computing the embedding distribution of a given graph is a fundamental question in topological graph theory. In this article, we extend our viewpoint to a sequence of graphs and consider their asymptotic embedding distributions, which are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Yichao Chen , Wenjie Fang , Zhicheng Gao , Jinlian Zhang

We provide precise asymptotic estimates for the number of several classes of labelled cubic planar graphs, and we analyze properties of such random graphs under the uniform distribution. This model was first analyzed by Bodirsky et al.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Marc Noy , Clément Requilé , Juanjo Rué

Consider a robot that remembers only the starting position and walks along a knot once on a knot diagram, switching every undercrossing it meets until it returns to the starting position. We observe that the robot produces an ascending…

We present four models for a random graph and show that, in each case, the probability that a graph is intrinsically knotted goes to one as the number of vertices increases. We also argue that, for $k \geq 18$, most graphs of order $k$ are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Kazuhiro Ichihara , Thomas W. Mattman

We introduce and study the writhe of a permutation, a circular variant of the well-known inversion number. This simple permutation statistics has several interpretations, which lead to some interesting properties. For a permutation sampled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Chaim Even-Zohar

In this paper we study the one dimensional random geometric graph when the location of the nodes are independent and exponentially distributed. We derive exact results and the limit theorems for the connectivity and other properties…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bhupendra Gupta , Srikanth K. Iyer , D. Manjunath

We apply round-off to planar rotations, obtaining a one-parameter family of invertible maps of a two-dimensional lattice. As the angle of rotation approaches pi/2, the fourth iterate of the map produces piecewise-rectilinear motion, which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Heather Reeve-Black , Franco Vivaldi

Random walk-based node embedding algorithms have attracted a lot of attention due to their scalability and ease of implementation. Previous research has focused on different walk strategies, optimization objectives, and embedding learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Konstantin Kutzkov

We show that for any nontrivial knot $K$ and any natural number $n$ there is a diagram $D$ of $K$ such that the unknotting number of $D$ is greater than or equal to $n$. It is well known that twice the unknotting number of $K$ is less than…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-06-22 Kouki Taniyama

Bankwitz characterized an alternating diagram representing the trivial knot. A non-alternating diagram is called almost alternating if one crossing change makes the diagram alternating. We characterize an almost alternaing diagram…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Tatsuya Tsukamoto

The weights of a neural network are typically initialized at random, and one can think of the functions produced by such a network as having been generated by a prior over some function space. Studying random networks, then, is useful for a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-28 Kevin K. Chen , Anthony C. Gamst , Alden K. Walker