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We prove that the detection rate of n-crossing alternating links by many standard link invariants decays exponentially in n, implying that they detect alternating links with probability zero. This phenomenon applies broadly, in particular…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Tuomas Kelomäki , Abel Lacabanne , Daniel Tubbenhauer , Pedro Vaz , Victor L. Zhang

A close examination of the Maxwell-Lorentz theory of electrodynamics reveals that polarization and magnetization of material media need not be treated as local averages over small volumes - volumes that nevertheless contain a large number…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-10 Masud Mansuripur

We study the relationship between singularities of finite-dimensional integrable systems and singularities of the corresponding spectral curves. For the large class of integrable systems on matrix polynomials, which is a general framework…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-08-04 Anton Izosimov

A general procedure to reveal an Abelian structure of Yang-Mills theories by means of a (nonlocal) change of variables, rather than by gauge fixing, in the space of connections is proposed. The Abelian gauge group is isomorphic to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei V. Shabanov

The advent of solid state nanodevices allows for interrogating the physico-chemical properties of a polyelectrolyte chain by electrophoretically driving it through a nanopore. Salient dynamical aspects of the translocation process have been…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Rosa , M. Di Ventra , C. Micheletti

In 1976, Rudolph asked whether algebraic knots are linearly independent in the knot concordance group. This paper uses twisted Blanchfield pairings to answer this question in the affirmative for new large families of algebraic knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Anthony Conway , Min Hoon Kim , Wojciech Politarczyk

Discussed is relationship between nonlinearity and symmetry of dynamical models. The special stress is laid on essential, non-perturbative nonlinearity, when none linear background does exist. This is nonlinearity essentially different from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Jan Jerzy Sławianowski , Vasyl Kovalchuk

We initiate the study of classical knots through the homotopy class of the n-th evaluation map of the knot, which is the induced map on the compactified n-point configuration space. Sending a knot to its n-th evaluation map realizes the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ryan Budney , James Conant , Kevin P. Scannell , Dev Sinha

The altenating knots, links and twists projected on the S_2 sphere are identified with the phase Space of a Hamiltonian dynamic system of one degree of freedom. The saddles of the system correspond to the crossing points, the edges, to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eduardo Pina

The electromagnetic theory is considered in the framework of the generally covariant approach, that is applied to the analysis of electromagnetism in noninertial coordinate and frame systems. The special-relat\-ivistic formulation of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Yuri N. Obukhov

The goal of this paper is to sketch a broader outline of the mathematical structures present in the Nonlinear Maxwell Theory in continuation of work presented in my previous articles. In particular, I display new types of both dynamic and…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Artur Sowa

It is known that, if a point in $R^n$ is driven by a bounded below potential $V$, whose gradient is always in a closed convex cone which contains no lines, then the velocity has a finite limit as time goes to $+\infty$. The components of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-04-10 Gianluca Gorni , Gaetano Zampieri

We show that a variation of Milnor's $\bar\mu$-invariants, the so-called Campbell-Hausdorff invariants introduced recently by Stefan Papadima, are of finite type with respect to {\it marked singular links}. These link invariants are…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Xiao-Song Lin

A categorification of a polynomial link invariant is an homological invariant which contains the polynomial one as its graded Euler characteristic. This field has been initiated by Khovanov categorification of the Jones polynomial. Later,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-04-01 Benjamin Audoux

The coupling of the electromagnetic field to gravity is an age-old problem. Presently, there is a resurgence of interest in it, mainly for two reasons: (i) Experimental investigations are under way with ever increasing precision, be it in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov

We present a comprehensive classification of invariants of knots and links associated with irreducible representations of \uqslN{}, when the parameter of quantization $q$ is a root of unity. We demonstrate that, besides the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Liudmila Bishler , Andrei Mironov , Andrey Morozov

We consider the problem of an inextensible but flexible fiber advected by a steady chaotic flow, and ask the simple question whether the fiber can spontaneously knot itself. Using a 1D Cosserat model, a simple local viscous drag model and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-21 Benjamin Favier

To a smooth, compact, oriented, properly-embedded surface in the $4$-ball, we define an invariant of its boundary-preserving isotopy class from the Khovanov homology of its boundary link. Previous work showed that when the boundary link is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Isaac Sundberg , Jonah Swann

We show that a large class of null electromagnetic fields are immune to any modifications of Maxwell's equations in the form of arbitrary powers and derivatives of the field strength. These are thus exact solutions to virtually any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-09 Marcello Ortaggio , Vojtěch Pravda

We present general and global analytical solutions, valid from pole to equator, for the asymptotic structure of non-relativistic, rotating, stationary, axisymmetric, polytropic, unconfined, perfect MHD winds. The asymptotic structure of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Heyvaerts , C. Norman