English
Related papers

Related papers: Tribracket Modules

200 papers

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

We introduce \textit{Kaestner brackets}, a generalization of biquandle brackets to the case of parity biquandles. This infinite set of quantum enhancements of the biquandle counting invariant for oriented virtual knots and links includes…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-12 Forest Kobayashi , Sam Nelson

We identify a subcategory of biracks which define counting invariants of unoriented links, which we call involutory biracks. In particular, involutory biracks of birack rank N=1 are biquandles, which we call bikei. We define counting…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-04-25 Sinan Aksoy , Sam Nelson

This paper grew out of the author's work on arXiv:2504.18460. Differential operators in the sense of Grothendieck acting between modules over a commutative ring can be interpreted as torsion elements in the bimodule of all operators with…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Leonid Positselski

The involutory birack counting invariant is an integer-valued invariant of unoriented tangles defined by counting homomorphisms from the fundamental involutory birack of the tangle to a finite involutory birack over a set of framings modulo…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Sam Nelson , Veronica Rivera

We introduce birack brackets, skein invariants of birack-colored framed classical and virtual knots and links with values in a commutative unital ring. The multiset of birack bracket values over the homset from a framed link's fundamental…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Sam Nelson , Haoqi Tom Tang

Quandles with involutions that satisfy certain conditions, called good involutions, can be used to color non-orientable surface-knots. We use subgroups of signed permutation matrices to construct non-trivial good involutions on extensions…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-08-17 J. Scott Carter , Kanako Oshiro , Masahico Saito

A rack is a set with a binary operation that is right-invertible and self-distributive, properties diagrammatically corresponding to Reidemeister moves II and III, respectively. A rack is said to be an {\it augmented rack} if the operation…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Masahico Saito , Emanuele Zappala

The Dedekind tessellation -- the regular tessellation of the upper half-plane by the Mobius action of the modular group -- is usually viewed as a system of ideal triangles. We change the focus from triangles to circles and give their…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Jerzy Kocik

The aim of this paper is to define certain algebraic structures coming from generalized Reidemeister moves of singular knot theory. We give examples, show that the set of colorings by these algebraic structures is an invariant of singular…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Indu R. U. Churchill , M. Elhamdadi , M. Hajij , Sam Nelson

We introduce an infinite family of quantum enhancements of the biquandle counting invariant we call biquandle virtual brackets. Defined in terms of skein invariants of biquandle colored oriented knot and link diagrams with values in a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Sam Nelson , Kanako Oshiro , Ayaka Shimizu , Yoshiro Yaguchi

We use the structure of skew braces to enhance the biquandle counting invariant for virtual knots and links for finite biquandles defined from skew braces. We introduce two new invariants: a single-variable polynomial using skew brace…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Melody Chang , Sam Nelson

We introduce an associative algebra Z[X,S] associated to a birack shadow and define enhancements of the birack counting invariant for classical knots and links via representations of Z[X,S] known as shadow modules. We provide examples which…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-06-03 Sam Nelson , Katie Pelland

A twisted ring is a ring endowed with a family of endomorphisms satisfying certain relations. One may then consider the notions of twisted module and twisted differential module. We study them and show that, under some general hypothesis,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Bernard Le Stum , Adolfo Quirós

We study Coxeter racks over $\mathbb{Z}_n$ and the knot and link invariants they define. We exploit the module structure of these racks to enhance the rack counting invariants and give examples showing that these enhanced invariants are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-08-13 Sam Nelson , Ryan Wieghard

Finite-order invariants of knots in arbitrary 3-manifolds (including non-orientable ones) are constructed and studied by methods of the topology of discriminant sets. Obstructions to the integrability of admissible weight systems to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Victor A. Vassiliev

We introduce an infinite family of quiver representation-valued invariants of classical, virtual and surface-knots and links associated to a choice of finite biquandle, commutative unital ring, biquandle module and set of biquandle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yewon Joung , Sam Nelson

In this paper, we introduce biquandle power brackets, an infinite family of invariants of oriented links containing the classical skein invariants and the quandle and biquandle 2-cocycle invariants as special cases. Biquandle power brackets…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Neslihan Gügümcü , Sam Nelson

We introduce a multiple conjugation biquandle, and show that it is the universal algebra to define a semi-arc coloring invariant for handlebody-links. A multiple conjugation biquandle is a generalization of a multiple conjugation quandle.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Atsushi Ishii , Masahide Iwakiri , Seiichi Kamada , Jieon Kim , Shosaku Matsuzaki , Kanako Oshiro

In this paper, we introduce compatible ternary Leibniz algebras, (dual)Nijenhuis pairs from the second-order deformation of ternary Leibniz algebras with a representarion and study the invariance of certains operators (generalized…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Kol Béatrice Gamou , Ibrahima Bakayoko