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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 bring cocycle enhancement theory to the case of psyquandles. Analogously to our previous work on virtual biquandle cocycle enhancements, we define enhancements of the psyquandle counting invariant via pairs of a biquandle 2-cocycle and a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Jose Ceniceros , Sam Nelson

Biquandle brackets are a type of quantum enhancement of the biquandle counting invariant for oriented knots and links, defined by a set of skein relations with coefficients which are functions of biquandle colors at a crossing. In this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Neslihan Gügümcü , Sam Nelson , Natsumi Oyamaguchi

We extend the notion of biquandle brackets to the case of psyquandles, defining quantum enhancements of the psyquandle counting invariant for singular knots and pseudoknots. We provide examples to illustrate the computation of these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Sam Nelson , Natsumi Oyamaguchi

We enhance the tribracket counting invariant with \textit{tribracket brackets}, skein invariants of tribracket-colored oriented knots and links analogously to biquandle brackets. This infinite family of invariants includes the classical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Laira Aggarwal , Sam Nelson , Patricia Rivera

In this paper, we introduce invariants of virtual knotoids based on biquandles and biquandle virtual brackets. We show that one of these invariants, namely biquandle virtual bracket matrix, is a proper enhancement of the other invariants…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Neslihan Gügümcü , Hamdi Kayaslan

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

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

We enhance the quandle counting invariants of oriented classical and virtual knots and links using a construction similar to quandle modules but inspired by symplectic quandle operations rather than Alexander quandle operations. Given a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Will Gilroy , Sam Nelson

We enhance the psyquandle counting invariant for singular knots and pseudoknots using quivers analogously to quandle coloring quivers. This enables us to extend the in-degree polynomial invariants from quandle coloring quiver theory to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Jose Ceniceros , Anthony Christiana , Sam Nelson

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 enhance the quandle coloring quiver invariant of oriented knots and links with quandle modules. This results in a two-variable polynomial invariant with specializes to the previous quandle module polynomial invariant as well as to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Karma Istanbouli , Sam Nelson

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

In this short survey we review recent results dealing with algebraic structures (quandles, psyquandles, and singquandles) related to singular knot theory. We first explore the singquandles counting invariant and then consider several recent…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Jose Ceniceros , Indu R. Churchill , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Mustafa Hajij

In this short note, we construct some nontrivial examples of topological biquandle. The key ingredient of the construction is the notion of skew brace.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Zhiyun Cheng

We define enhancements of the quandle counting invariant for knots and links with a finite labeling quandle Q embedded in the quandle of units of a Lie algebra \mathfrak{a} using Lie ideals. We provide examples demonstrating that the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Gillian Roxanne Grindstaff , Sam Nelson

We introduce shadow structures for singular knot theory. Precisely, we define \emph{two} invariants of singular knots and links. First, we introduce a notion of action of a singquandle on a set to define a shadow counting invariant of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Jose Ceniceros , Indu R. Churchill , Mohamed Elhamdadi

We introduce a six-variable polynomial invariant of Niebrzydowski tribrackets analogous to quandle,rack and biquandle polynomials. Using the subtribrackets of a tribracket, we additionally define subtribracket polynomials and establish a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Sam Nelson , Fletcher Nickerson

We introduce a modified rack algebra Z[X] for racks X with finite rack rank N. We use representations of Z[X] into rings, known as rack modules, to define enhancements of the rack counting invariant for classical and virtual knots and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-08-04 Aaron Haas , Garret Heckel , Sam Nelson , Jonah Yuen , Qingcheng Zhang

We enhance the biquandle counting invariant using elements of truncated biquandle-labeled Polyak algebras. These finite type enhancements reduce to the finite type enhancements defined by Goussarov, Polyak and Viro for the trivial biquandle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Sam Nelson
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