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By adding or removing appropriate structures to Gauss diagram, one can create useful objects related to virtual links. In this paper few objects of this kind are studied: twisted virtual links generalizing virtual links; signed chord…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oleg Viro

The forbidden moves in virtual knot theory can be used to unknot any knot, virtual or classical; however, multi-component crossings in links can still survive, resulting a fused link. Using the forbidden moves, we categorify fused links…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Sam Nelson , Stella Shah

A realization of a virtual link diagram is obtained by choosing over/under markings for each virtual crossing. Any realization can also be obtained from some representation of the virtual link. (A representation of a virtual link is a link…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 H. A. Dye

This paper studies knots in three dimensional projective space. Our technique is to associate a virtual link to a link in projective space so that equivalent projective links go to equivalent virtual links (modulo a special flype move). We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Louis H. Kauffman , Rama Mishra , Visakh Narayanan

F-polynomials for virtual knots were defined by Kaur, Prabhakar and Vesnin in 2018 using flat virtual knot invariants. These polynomials naturally generalize Kauffman's affine index polynomial and use smoothing in classical crossing of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Amrendra Gill , Maxim Ivanov , Madeti Prabhakar , Andrei Vesnin

Jin and Lee proved the following: Suppose that $D_1, \dots, D_n$ are link diagrams. Given a link $L$ which is partitioned into sublinks $L_1, \dots, L_n$ admitting diagrams $D_1, \dots, D_n$ respectively, there is a diagram $D$ of $L$ whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Naoko Kamada

The aim of the present paper is to prove that the minimal number of virtual crossings for some families of virtual knots grows quadratically with respect to the minimal number of classical crossings. All previously known estimates for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Vassily Olegovich Manturov

In mathematics, a knot is a single strand of string crossed over itself any number of times, and connected at the ends. The Reidemeister Moves have been proven to be the three core moves necessary to fully untangle a knot. Some knots can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Dana Foley

Vassiliev introduced filtered invariants of knots using an unknotting operation, called crossing changes. Goussarov, Polyak, and Viro introduced other filtered invariants of virtual knots, which order is called GPV-order, using an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Noboru Ito , Migiwa Sakurai

Twisted links are a generalization of virtual links. As virtual links correspond to abstract links on orientable surfaces, twisted links correspond to abstract links on (possibly non-orientable) surfaces. In this paper, we introduce the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Naoko Kamada , Seiichi Kamada

Virtual quandles with two operations are discussed in the article. Certain knot invariant is constructed and used to distinguish two long virtual knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-17 D. A. Fedoseev

Multi-virtual knot theory was introduced in $2024$ by the first author. In this paper, we initiate the study of algebraic invariants of multi-virtual links. After determining a generating set of (oriented) multi-virtual Reidemeister moves,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Louis H. Kauffman , Sujoy Mukherjee , Petr Vojtěchovský

In this paper, we compute the slice genus for many low-crossing virtual knots. For instance, we show that 1295 out of 92800 virtual knots with 6 or fewer crossings are slice, and that all but 248 of the rest are not slice. Key to these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Hans U. Boden , Micah Chrisman , Robin Gaudreau

Piecewise-linear virtual knots are discussed and classified up to edge index six.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-07-14 Neil R. Nicholson

For any virtual link, a class of new links can be defined called stacks, in which copies of the virtual link are placed on top of one another. The resulting virtual link depends only on the virtual isotopy class of the original link, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Blake K Winter

For classical links Ohyama proved an inequality involving the minimal crossing number and the braid index, then motivated from this Takeda showed an analogous inequality for virtual links. In this paper, we are interested in studying…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Gustavo Cardoso , Oscar Ocampo

Multicrossings, which have previously been defined for classical knots and links, are extended to virtual knots and links. In particular, petal diagrams are shown to exist for all virtual knots.

Twisted knot theory, introduced by M.O.Bourgoin, is a generalization of virtual knot theory. It is easily shown that any virtual knot can be deformed into a trivial knot by a finite sequence of generalized Reidemeister moves and two…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Shudan Xue , Qingying Deng

This paper extends the study of arc crossing change, a local operation on knot diagrams recently introduced by Cericola, from knot diagrams to link diagrams. We consider two types of arc crossing change on link diagrams and discuss when…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Zhiyun Cheng , Qian Liao , Jingze Song

We define a homology theory of virtual links built out of the direct sum of the standard Khovanov complex with itself, motivating the name doubled Khovanov homology. We demonstrate that it can be used to show that some virtual links are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-15 William Rushworth