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Biquandle brackets define invariants of classical and virtual knots and links using skein invariants of biquandle-colored knots and links. Biquandle coloring quivers categorify the biquandle counting invariant in the sense of defining…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Pia Cosma Falkenburg , Sam Nelson

A group-theoretical method, via Wada's representations, is presented to distinguish Kishino's virtual knot from the unknot. Biquandles are constructed for any group using Wada's braid group representations. Cocycle invariants for these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Scott Carter , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Masahico Saito , Daniel S. Silver , Susan G. Williams

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

There are many studies about twisted Alexander invariants for knots and links, but calculations of twisted Alexander invariants for spatial graphs, handlebody-knots, and surface-links have not been demonstrated well. In this paper, we give…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Atsushi Ishii , Ryo Nikkuni , Kanako Oshiro

We introduce several algebraic structures related to handlebody-knots, including $G$-families of biquandles, partially multiplicative biquandles and group decomposable biquandles. These structures can be used to color the semiarcs in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Atsushi Ishii , Sam Nelson

We introduce the notion of mc-biquandles, algebraic structures which have possibly distinct biquandle operations at single-component and multi-component crossings. These structures provide computable homset invariants for classical and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Seonmi Choi , Sam Nelson

We introduce two kinds of structures, called v-structures and t-structures, on biquandles. These structures are used for colorings of diagrams of virtual links and twisted links such that the numbers of colorings are invariants. Given a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Naoko Kamada , Seiichi Kamada

We introduce a new class of quantum enhancements we call biquandle brackets, which are customized skein invariants for biquandle colored links.Quantum enhancements of biquandle counting invariants form a class of knot and link invariants…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Sam Nelson , Michael E. Orrison , Veronica Rivera

We enhance the pointed quandle counting invariant of linkoids through the use of quivers analogously to quandle coloring quivers. This allows us to generalize the in-degree polynomial invariant of links to linkoids. Additionally, we…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Jose Ceniceros , Max Klivans

In their paper entitled "Quantum Enhancements and Biquandle Brackets," Nelson, Orrison, and Rivera introduced biquandle brackets, which are customized skein invariants for biquandle-colored links. We prove herein that if a biquandle bracket…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Will Hoffer , Adu Vengal , Vilas Winstein

It is known that the number of biquandle colorings of a long virtual knot diagram, with a fixed color of the initial arc, is a knot invariant. In this paper we describe a more subtle invariant: a family of biquandle endomorphisms obtained…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Maciej Niebrzydowski

We define ambient isotopy invariants of oriented knots and links using the counting invariants of framed links defined by finite racks. These invariants reduce to the usual quandle counting invariant when the rack in question is a quandle.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Sam Nelson

We introduce a new algebraic structure called \textit{local biquandles} and show how colorings of oriented classical link diagrams and of broken surface diagrams are related to tribracket colorings. We define a (co)homology theory for local…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Sam Nelson , Kanako Oshiro , Natsumi Oyamaguchi

Niebrzydowski tribrackets are ternary operations on sets satisfying conditions obtained from the oriented Reidemeister moves such that the set of tribracket colorings of an oriented knot or link diagram is an invariant of oriented knots and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Deanna Needell , Sam Nelson , Yingqi Shi

We introduce and investigate oriented dichromatic singular links. We also introduce oriented disingquandles and use them to define counting invariants for oriented dichromatic singular links. We provide some examples to show that these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Mohd Ibrahim Sheikh , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Danish Ali

The Alexander biquandle of a virtual knot or link is a module over a 2-variable Laurent polynomial ring which is an invariant of virtual knots and links. The elementary ideals of this module are then invariants of virtual isotopy which…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-30 Alissa S. Crans , Allison Henrich , Sam Nelson

We introduce the notion of a quandle with a good involution and its homology groups. Carter et al. defined quandle cocycle invariants for oriented links and oriented surface-links. By use of good involutions, quandle cocyle invariants can…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Seiichi Kamada , Kanako Oshiro

We define counting and cocycle enhancement invariants of virtual knots using parity biquandles. These invariants are determined by pairs consisting of a biquandle 2-cocycle \phi^0 and a map \phi^1 with certain compatibility conditions…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Aaron Kaestner , Sam Nelson , Leo Selker

Introduced in arXiv:2211.12606, biquandle arrow weight invariants are enhancements of the biquandle counting invariant for oriented virtual and classical knots defined from biquandle-colored Gauss diagrams using a tensor over an abelian…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Sam Nelson , Migiwa Sakurai

We introduce a modified homology and cohomology theory for involutory biquandles (also known as \textit{bikei}). We use bikei 2-cocycles to enhance the bikei counting invariant for unoriented knots and links as well as unoriented and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Sam Nelson , Jake Rosenfield