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Knots are familiar entities that appear at a captivating nexus of art, technology, mathematics, and science. As topologically stable objects within field theories, they have been speculatively proposed as explanations for diverse persistent…

Knot theory provides a powerful tool for the understanding of topological matters in biology, chemistry, and physics. Here knot theory is introduced to describe topological phases in the quantum spin system. Exactly solvable models with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-24 X. M. Yang , L. Jin , Z. Song

Lord Kelvin's pioneering hypothesis that the identity of atoms is knots of vortices of the aether had a profound impact on the fields of mathematics and physics despite being subsequently refuted by experiments. While knot-like excitations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-06 Minoru Eto , Yu Hamada , Muneto Nitta

This is an introductory article on high dimensional knots for the beginners. High dimensional knot theory is an exciting field. It is a field of knot theory, which is one of topology and is connected with many ones. In this article we use…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Eiji Ogasa

Knot physics is the theory of the universe that not only unified all the fundamental interactions but also explores the underlying physics of quantum mechanics. In knot physics, the most important physical result is the unification of…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-05 Su-Peng Kou

Knot theory is the Mathematical study of knots. In this paper we have studied the Composition of two knots. Knot theory belongs to Mathematical field of Topology, where the topological concepts such as topological spaces, homeomorphisms,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-04 G Infant Gabriel , Dr N Uma

Data science offers a powerful tool to understand objects in multiple sciences. In this paper we utilize concept of data science, most notably topological data analysis, to extend our understanding of knot theory. This approach provides a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Pawel Dlotko , Davide Gurnari , Radmila Sazdanovic

We discuss the theory of knots, and describe how knot invariants arise naturally in gravitational physics. The focus of this review is to delineate the relationship between knot theory and the loop representation of non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomas Liko , Louis H. Kauffman

The interplay of topological constraints and Coulomb interactions in static and dynamic properties of charged polymers is investigated by numerical simulations and scaling arguments. In the absence of screening, the long-range interaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul G. Dommersnes , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

This paper is a survey of knot theory and invariants of knots and links from the point of view of categories of diagrams. The topics range from foundations of knot theory to virtual knot theory and topological quantum field theory.

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

A knot in a thickened surface $K$ is a smooth embedding $K:S^1 \rightarrow \Sigma \times [0,1]$, where $\Sigma$ is a closed, connected, orientable surface. There is a bijective correspondence between knots in $S^2 \times [0,1]$ and knots in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-10 James Kreinbihl

The primary objects of study in the ``knot theory of complex plane curves'' are C-links: links (or knots) cut out of a 3-sphere in the complex plane by complex plane transverse and totally tangential. Transverse C-links are naturally…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lee Rudolph

We analyze the connections between the mathematical theory of knots and quantum physics by addressing a number of algorithmic questions related to both knots and braid groups. Knots can be distinguished by means of `knot invariants', among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 S. Garnerone , A. Marzuoli , M. Rasetti

Using methods of high performance computing, we have found indications that knotlike structures appear as stable finite energy solitons in a realistic 3+1 dimensional model. We have explicitly simulated the unknot and trefoil…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 L. Faddeev , Antti J. Niemi

The lectures review the state of affairs in modern branch of mathematical physics called probabilistic topology. In particular we consider the following problems: (i) We estimate the probability of a trivial knot formation on the lattice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Nechaev

In this paper, knot physics on entangled vortex-membranes are studied including classification, knot dynamics and effective theory. The physics objects in this paper are entangled vortex-membranes that are called composite knot-crystals.…

General Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Su-Peng Kou

We consider the Non-Abelian Chern-Simons term coupled to external particles, in a gauge and diffeomorphism invariant form. The classical equations of motion are perturbativelly studied, and the on-shell action is shown to produce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Lorenzo Leal

A polynomial is presented that models a topological knot in a unique manner. It distinguishes all types of knots including the orientation and has a group theory interpretation. The topologies may be labeled via a number, which upon a base…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

I present a summary of the recent progress made in field and string theory which has led to a reformulation of quantum-group polynomial invariants for knots and links into new polynomial invariants whose coefficients can be described in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose M. F. Labastida

In this paper, the Kelvin wave and knot dynamics are studied on three dimensional smoothly deformed entangled vortex-membranes in five dimensional space. Owing to the existence of local Lorentz invariance and diffeomorphism invariance, in…

General Physics · Physics 2017-09-11 Su-Peng Kou
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