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We give characterizations of the skein polynomial for links (as well as Jones and Alexander-Conway polynomials derivable from it), avoiding the usual "smoothing of a crossing" move. As by-products we have characterizations of these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Boju Jiang , Jiajun Wang , Hao Zheng

We define the notion of a twisted topological graph algebra associated to a topological graph and a $1$-cocycle on its edge set. We prove a stronger version of a Vasselli's result. We expand Katsura's results to study twisted topological…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Hui Li

Derivations of twisted loop algebras of minimal Q-graded subalgebras of semisimple Lie algebras are investigated, and a decomposition formula of the derivation algebra is obtained. Homogenous almost inner derivations of twisted loop…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Yaxin Shen , Xiandong Wang

This paper is a continuation on the 2012 paper on "Cutting Twisted Solid Tori (TSTs)", in which we considered twisted solid torus links (tst links). We generalize the notion of tst links to "surgerized tst links": recall that when…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Wilson Wong , Franky Mok

It is known, since works of Burde and de Rham, that one can detect the roots of the Alexander polynomial of a knot by the study of the representations of the knot group into the group of the invertible upper triangular $2x2$ matrices. In…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-08-09 Hajer Jebali

In this paper, we define the parity virtual Alexander polynomial following the work of BDGGHN [1] and Kaestner and Kauffman [10]. The properties of this invariant are explored and some examples are computed. In particular, the invariant…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Heather A. Dye , Aaron Kaestner

The twisted $T$-adic exponential sum associated to a polynomial in one variable is studied. An explicit arithmetic polygon is proved to be the generic Newton polygon of the twisted $C$-function of the T-adic exponential sum. It gives the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-12-08 Chunlei Liu , Chuanze Niu

A representation of the central extension of the unitary Lie algebra coordinated with a skew Laurent polynomial ring is constructed using vertex operators over an integral Z_2-lattice. The irreducible decomposition of the representation is…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Fulin Chen , Yun Gao , Naihuan Jing , Shaobin Tan

We introduce $L^2$-Alexander torsions for 3-manifolds, which can be viewed as a generalization of the $L^2$-Alexander polynomial of Li--Zhang. We state the $L^2$-Alexander torsions for graph manifolds and we partially compute them for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-20 Jérôme Dubois , Stefan Friedl , Wolfgang Lück

We propose a definition of the rotation number for transverse graph diagrams, extending the classical notion of the rotation number for plane curves. Using this, we introduce a normalized multi-variable Alexander polynomial for framed,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Yuanyuan Bao , Zhongtao Wu

In 1928, Alexander defined a sequence of knot polynomials, D_i(K). The first, D_1(K), is the classical Alexander polynomial. These are easily defined in terms of the homology of the infinite cyclic cover of the knot. In theory they can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Charles Livingston

Building further on work of Marin and Wagner, we give a cubic braid-type skein theory of the Links--Gould polynomial invariant of oriented links and prove that it can be used to evaluate any oriented link, adding this polynomial to the list…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Stavros Garoufalidis , Matthew Harper , Rinat Kashaev , Ben-Michael Kohli , Jiebo Song , Guillaume Tahar

Computing polynomial invariants for knots and links using braid representations relies heavily on finding the trace of Hecke algebra elements. There is no easy method known for computing the trace and hence it becomes difficult to compute…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Rama Mishra , Hitesh Raundal

By considering a (not necessarily locally-flat) PL knot as the singular locus of a PL stratified pseudomanifold, we can use intersection homology theory to define intersection Alexander polynomials, a generalization of the classical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-31 Greg Friedman

This paper gives an algebraic characterization of Alexander polynomials of equivariant ribbon knots and a factorization condition satisfied by Alexander polynomials of equivariant slice knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-30 James F. Davis , Swatee Naik

This paper presents two kinds of division polynomials for twisted Edwards curves. Their chief property is that they characterise the $n$-torsion points of a given twisted Edwards curve. We also present results concerning the coefficients of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-27 Richard Moloney , Gary McGuire

In a previous paper, we introduced special types of fusions, so called simple-ribbon fusions on links. A knot obtained from the trivial knot by a finite sequence of simple-ribbon fusions is called a simple-ribbon knot. Every ribbon knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Kengo Kishimoto , Tetsuo Shibuya , Tatsuya Tsukamoto , Tsuneo Ishikawa

Coloured Alexander polynomials form a sequence of non-semisimple quantum invariants coming from the representation theory of the quantum group $U_q(sl(2))$ at roots of unity. This sequence recovers the original Alexander polynomial as the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Cristina Ana-Maria Anghel

We relate the jumps of the signature function of a link to the roots of its first nonzero higher Alexander polynomial.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Patrick M. Gilmer , Charles Livingston

The low multilinear rank approximation, also known as the truncated Tucker decomposition, has been extensively utilized in many applications that involve higher-order tensors. Popular methods for low multilinear rank approximation usually…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Chuanfu Xiao , Chao Yang , Min Li