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We introduce an up-down coloring of a virtual-link diagram. The colorabilities give a lower bound of the minimum number of Reidemeister moves of type II which are needed between two 2-component virtual-link diagrams. By using the notion of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Kanako Oshiro , Ayaka Shimizu , Yoshiro Yaguchi

The present paper is an introduction to a combinatorial theory arising as a natural generalisation of classical and virtual knot theory. There is a way to encode links by a class of `realisable' graphs. When passing to generic graphs with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-10-31 Denis P. Ilyutko , Vassily O. Manturov

We develop a purely combinatorial framework for the systematic enumeration of knot and link diagrams supported on the thickened torus $T^2\times I$. Using the theory of maps on surfaces, cellular $4$--regular torus projections are encoded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Alexander Omelchenko

A virtual link may be defined as an equivalence class of diagrams, or alternatively as a stable equivalence class of links in thickened surfaces. We prove that a minimal crossing virtual link diagram has minimal genus across representatives…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Hans U. Boden , William Rushworth

Classical knot theory can be generalized to virtual knot theory and spatial graph theory. In 2007, Fleming and Mellor combined virtual knot theory and spatial graph theory to form, combinatorially, virtual spatial graph theory. In this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Qingying Deng , Xian'an Jin , Louis H. Kauffman

Algorithm of construction of all knots, links with given number of crosses on diagram of knot, link is offered. This algorithm is based on simple proposition, that there is a representation of knot (link) as closure of braid with n threads…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. S. Serova , S. A. Serov

In oriented knot theory, verifying a quantity is an invariant involves checking its invariance under all oriented Reidemeister moves, a process that can be intricate and time-consuming. A generating set of oriented moves simplifies this by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Danish Ali

Over-squashing is a challenge in training graph neural networks for tasks involving long-range dependencies. In such tasks, a GNN's receptive field should be large enough to enable communication between distant nodes. However, gathering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Tuğrul Hasan Karabulut , İnci M. Baytaş

Virtual knot theory, introduced by Kauffman, is a generalization of classical knot theory of interest because its finite-type invariant theory is potentially a topological interpretation of Etingof and Kazhdan's theory of quantization of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-09-21 Karene Chu

A group invariant for links in thickened closed orientable surfaces is studied. Associated polynomial invariants are defined. The group detects nontriviality of a virtual link and determines its virtual genus.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 J. Scott Carter , Daniel S. Silver , Susan G. Williams

In this paper we prove a Markov Theorem for virtual braids and for some analogs of this structure. The virtual braid group is the natural companion in the category of virtual knots, just as the Artin braid group is the natural companion to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis H. Kauffman , Sofia Lambropoulou

Network virtualization enables Internet service providers to run multiple heterogeneous and dedicated network architectures for different customers on a shared substrate. In existing works on virtual network embedding (VNE), each customer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Jiangnan Cheng , Yingjie Bi , Ao Tang

We define a generalization of virtual links to arbitrary dimensions by extending the geometric definition due to Carter et al. We show that many homotopy type invariants for classical links extend to invariants of virtual links. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-04 Blake Winter

Several authors have recently studied virtual knots and links because they admit invariants arising from R-matrices. We prove that every virtual link is uniquely represented by a link L in S X I, a thickened, compact, oriented surface S,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Greg Kuperberg

The paper contains an essentially self-contained treatment of Khovanov homology, Khovanov-Lee homology as well as the Rasmussen invariant for virtual knots and virtual knot cobordisms which directly applies to classical knot and classical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Heather A. Dye , Aaron Kaestner , Louis H. Kauffman

We discuss Vassiliev invariants for virtual knots, expanding upon the theory of quantum virtual knot invariants developed in arXiv:1509.00578. In particular, following the theory of quantum invariants we work with 'rotational' virtual…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Wout Moltmaker , Louis H. Kauffman

A sequence of $F$-polynomials $\{ F^n_K (t, \ell)\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ of virtual knots $K$ was defined by Kaur, Prabhakar, and Vesnin in 2018. These polynomials have been expressed in terms of index value of crossing and $n$-writhe of $K$. By…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Maxim Ivanov , Andrei Vesnin

Network virtualization is an efficient approach of solving the ossification problem of the Internet. It has become a promising way of supporting lots of heterogeneous network onto substrate physical network. A major challenge in network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Neha Mishra

We give a detailed exposition of the "vectorized" notation for dealing with quantum operations. This notation is used to highlight the relationships between representations of completely-positive dynamics. Vectorization considerably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-19 Alexei Gilchrist , Daniel R. Terno , Christopher J. Wood

A weak chord index $Ind'$ is constructed for self crossing points of virtual links. Then a new writhe polynomial $W$ of virtual links is defined by using $Ind'$. $W$ is a generalization of writhe polynomial defined in [6]. Based on $W$,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Mengjian Xu