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We investigate the bi-orderability of two-bridge knot groups and the groups of knots with 12 or fewer crossings by applying recent theorems of Chiswell, Glass and Wilson. Amongst all knots with 12 or fewer crossings (of which there are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Adam Clay , Colin Desmarais , Patrick Naylor

A long standing open conjecture states that if a link $\mathcal{K}$ is alternating, then its ropelength $L(\mathcal{K})$ is at least of the order $O(Cr(\mathcal{K}))$. A recent result shows that the maximum braid index of a link bounds the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Yuanan Diao

We study Clustered Planarity with Linear Saturators, which is the problem of augmenting an $n$-vertex planar graph whose vertices are partitioned into independent sets (called clusters) with paths - one for each cluster - that connect all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Giordano Da Lozzo , Robert Ganian , Siddharth Gupta , Bojan Mohar , Sebastian Ordyniak , Meirav Zehavi

In this paper, we give new, tight subexponential lower bounds for a number of graph embedding problems. We introduce two related combinatorial problems, which we call String Crafting and Orthogonal Vector crafting, and show that these…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Hans L. Bodlaender , Tom C. van der Zanden

There is an infinitely generated free subgroup of the smooth knot concordance group with the property that no nontrivial element in this subgroup can be represented by an alternating knot. This subgroup has the further property that every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Stefan Friedl , Charles Livingston , Raphael Zentner

This paper describes about relation between circuit complexity and accept inputs structure in Hamming space by using almost all monotone circuit that emulate deterministic Turing machine (DTM). Circuit family that emulate DTM are almost all…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Koji Kobayashi

A standard model in network synchronised distributed computing is the LOCAL model. In this model, the processors work in rounds and, in the classic setting, they know the number of vertices of the network, $n$. Using $n$, they can compute…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Laurent Feuilloley

The orbit problem is at the heart of symmetry reduction methods for model checking concurrent systems. It asks whether two given configurations in a concurrent system (represented as finite strings over some finite alphabet) are in the same…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Anthony Widjaja Lin , Sanming Zhou

The 0/1 knapsack problem is weakly NP-hard in that there exist pseudo-polynomial time algorithms based on dynamic programming that can solve it exactly. There are also the core branch and bound algorithms that can solve large randomly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Shalin Shah

We derive a linear estimate of the signature of positive knots, in terms of their genus. As an application, we show that every knot concordance class contains at most finitely many positive knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Sebastian Baader , Pierre Dehornoy , Livio Liechti

We study the problem of determining the minimal genus of a simple finite connected graph. We present an algorithm which, for an arbitrary graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, determines the orientable genus of $G$ in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Alexander Metzger , Austin Ulrigg

Every element in the first cohomology group of a 3--manifold is dual to embedded surfaces. The Thurston norm measures the minimal `complexity' of such surfaces. For instance the Thurston norm of a knot complement determines the genus of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Friedl , Taehee Kim

It is well understood that different neural network architectures are suited to different tasks, but is there always a single best architecture for a given task? We compare the expressive power of transformers, RNNs, and transformers with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Gilad Yehudai , Noah Amsel , Joan Bruna

We consider several subgroup-related algorithmic questions in groups, modeled after the classic computational lattice problems, and study their computational complexity. We find polynomial time solutions to problems like finding a subgroup…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Alexei Myasnikov , Andrey Nikolaev , Alexander Ushakov

The method for analyzing algorithmic runtime complexity using decision trees is discussed using the sorting algorithm. This method is then extended to optimal algorithms which may find all cliques of size q in network N, or simply the first…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Daniel Uribe

In a lens space X of order r a knot K representing an element of the fundamental group pi_1 X = Z/rZ of order s <= r contains a connected orientable surface S properly embedded in its exterior X-N(K) such that the boundary of S intersects…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-30 Kenneth L Baker

We show that the difference between the genus and the stable topological 4-genus of alternating knots is either zero or at least 1/3.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Sebastian Baader , Lukas Lewark

Let $G$ be an edge-weighted directed graph with $n$ vertices embedded on an orientable surface of genus $g$. We describe a simple deterministic lexicographic perturbation scheme that guarantees uniqueness of minimum-cost flows and shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jeff Erickson , Kyle Fox , Luvsandondov Lkhamsuren

Holographic entanglement entropy was recently recast in terms of Riemannian flows or 'bit threads'. We consider the Lorentzian analog to reformulate the 'complexity=volume' conjecture using Lorentzian flows -- timelike vector fields whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Juan F. Pedraza , Andrea Russo , Andrew Svesko , Zachary Weller-Davies

We consider classes of fundamental groups of complements of various kinds of codimension 2 embeddings and show that, in general, the problem of deciding whether or not a group in one class belongs to a smaller class is algorithmically…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-28 F. Gonzalez-Acuna , C. McA. Gordon , J. Simon