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Welded knotted objects are a combinatorial extension of knot theory, which can be used as a tool for studying ribbon surfaces in $4$-space. A finite type invariant theory for ribbon knotted surfaces was developped by Kanenobu, Habiro and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Adrien Casejuane , Jean-Baptiste Meilhan

We study invariants of virtual graphoids, which are virtual spatial graph diagrams with two distinguished degree-one vertices modulo graph Reidemeister moves applied away from the distinguished vertices. Generalizing previously known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Neslihan Gügümcü , Louis H. Kauffman , Puttipong Pongtanapaisan

In this note we define a polynomial invariant for colored links by a skein relation. It specializes to the Jones polynomial for classical links.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Francesca Aicardi

We introduce Khovanov homology for ribbon graphs and show that the Khovanov homology of a certain ribbon graph embedded on the Turaev surface of a link is isomorphic to the Khovanov homology of the link (after a grading shift). We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Oliver T. Dasbach , Adam M. Lowrance

In this article, we study the invariant differential forms which a correspondence of curves admits. We also try to classify the correspondences of $\mathbb{P}^1$ that admits such invariant differential forms.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Arnab Saha

The theory of welded and extended welded knots is a generalization of classical knot theory. Welded (resp. extended welded) knot diagrams include virtual crossings (resp. virtual crossings and wen marks) and are equivalent under an extended…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-09-18 N. Backes , M. Kaiser , T. Leafblad , E. I. C. Peterson , D. N. Yetter

Random graphs are more and more used for modeling real world networks such as evolutionary networks of proteins. For this purpose we look at two different models and analyze how properties like connectedness and degree distributions are…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Klemens Taglieber , Uta Freiberg

For a virtual $n$-link $K$, we define a new virtual link $VD(K)$, which is invariant under virtual equivalence of $K$. The Dehn space of $VD(K)$, which we denote $DD(K)$, therefore has a homotopy type which is an invariant of $K$. We show…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Blake K Winter

We use planar 4-valent graphs and a graphical calculus involving such graphs to construct an invariant for balanced-oriented, knotted 4-valent graphs. Our invariant is an extension of the $sl(n)$ polynomial for classical knots and links. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Carmen Caprau , Victoria Wiest

In this paper, we define invariants of links in terms of colorings of link diagrams and prove that these invariants coincide with various notions of widths of links with respect to the standard Morse function. Our formulations are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Ricky Lee , Puttipong Pongtanapaisan , Hanh Vo

Leavitt inverse semigroups of directed finite graphs are related to Leavitt graph algebras of (directed) graphs. Leavitt path algebras of graphs have the natural $\mathbb Z$-grading via the length of paths in graphs. We consider the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Huanhuan Li , Zongchao Li , Zhengpan Wang

We define relative versions of the classical invariants of Legendrian and transverse knots in contact 3-manifolds for knots that are homologous to a fixed reference knot. We show these invariants are well-defined and give some basic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Georgi D. Gospodinov

We introduce a new family of invariants of oriented classical and virtual knots and links using fares, maps from paths in biquandle-colored diagrams to an abelian coefficient group. We consider the cases of 1-fares and 2-fares, provide…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Sam Nelson , Stella Shah

In 2002, D. Hrencecin and L.H. Kauffman defined a filamentation invariant on oriented chord diagrams that may determine whether the corresponding flat virtual knot diagrams are non-trivial. A virtual knot diagram is non-classical if its…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William J. Schellhorn

In this paper, we introduce the concept of the warping degree for twisted knots, construct an invariant for them, and utilize it to establish a labeling scheme for these knots, known as ``warping labeling". We have identified that a warping…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Komal Negi , Ayaka Shimizu , Madeti Prabhakar

We define new invariants of knots by means of quandle colorings and longitudinal information. These invariants can be applied to a tangle embedding problem and recognizing non-classical virtual knots.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Maciej Niebrzydowski

In previous work, the author defined the intersection graph of a chord diagram associated with string links (as in the theory of finite type invariants). In this paper, we classify the trees which can be obtained as intersection graphs of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Blake Mellor

Virtual knot theory is a generalization of knot theory which is based on Gauss chord diagrams and link diagrams on closed oriented surfaces. A twisted knot is a generalization of a virtual knot, which corresponds to a link diagram on a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Naoko Kamada

In this paper, we define some polynomial invariants for virtual knots and links. In the first part we use Manturov's parity axioms to obtain a new polynomial invariant of virtual knots. This invariant can be regarded as a generalization of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Zhiyun Cheng , Hongzhu Gao

We present SeVeN (Semantic Vector Networks), a hybrid resource that encodes relationships between words in the form of a graph. Different from traditional semantic networks, these relations are represented as vectors in a continuous vector…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Luis Espinosa-Anke , Steven Schockaert