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We present a complete classification of spherical knotoids with up to six crossings and conjecture that our classification up to seven crossings is complete. Our work extends the tradition of knot tabulation to the setting of knotoids…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Boštjan Gabrovšek , Paolo Cavicchioli

In this paper, we introduce the concept of 3-alterfolds with embedded separating surfaces. When the separating surface is decorated by a spherical fusion category, we obtain quantum invariants of 3-alterfold, which is consistent with many…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Zhengwei Liu , Shuang Ming , Yilong Wang , Jinsong Wu

Knotoids were introduced by V. Turaev as open-ended knot-type diagrams that generalize knots. Turaev defined a two-variable polynomial invariant of knotoids which encompasses a generalization of the Jones knot polynomial to knotoids. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Deniz Kutluay

Cubic complexes appear in the theory of finite type invariants so often that one can ascribe them to basic notions of the theory. In this paper we begin the exposition of finite type invariants from the `cubic' point of view. Finite type…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergei Matveev , Michael Polyak

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

In this paper, we consider biquandle colorings for knotoids in $\mathbb{R}^2$ or $S^2$ and we construct several coloring invariants for knotoids derived as enhancements of the biquandle counting invariant. We first enhance the biquandle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Neslihan Gügümcü , Sam Nelson

We discuss different invariants of knots and links that depend on a primitive root of unity. We clarify the definitions of existing invariants with the Reshetikhin-Turaev method, present the generalization of ADO invariants to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Liudmila Bishler

In GT/0006019 oriented quantum algebras were motivated and introduced in a natural categorical setting. Invariants of knots and links can be computed from oriented quantum algebras, and this includes the Reshetikhin-Turaev theory for Ribbon…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis H. Kauffman , David E. Radford

Ozsv\'ath and Szab\'o used the knot filtration on $\widehat{CF}(S^3)$ to define the $\tau$-invariant for knots in the 3-sphere. In this article, we generalize their construction and define a collection of $\tau$-invariants associated to a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Katherine Raoux

Let M be a closed oriented 3-manifold with first Betti number one. Its equivariant linking pairing may be seen as a two-dimensional cohomology class in an appropriate infinite cyclic covering of the space of ordered pairs of distinct points…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-08-31 Christine Lescop

In the prequel of this paper, Kauffman and Ogasa introduced new topological quantum invariants of compact oriented 3-manifolds with boundary where the boundary is a disjoint union of two identical surfaces. The invariants are constructed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Heather A. Dye , Louis H. Kauffman , Eiji Ogasa

We introduce new topological quantum invariants of compact oriented 3-manifolds with boundary where the boundary is a disjoint union of two identical surfaces. The invariants are constructed via surgery on manifolds of the form $F \times I$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Louis H. Kauffman , Eiji Ogasa

It is well-known that a knot in a contact manifold $(M,C)$ transverse to a trivialized contact structure possesses the natural framing given by the first of the trivialization vectors along the knot. If the Euler class $e_C\in H^2(M)$ of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Chernov

In this paper, we give a geometric interpretation of virtual knotoids as arcs in thickened surfaces. Then we show that virtual knotoid theory is a generalization of classical knotoid theory. This gives a proof of a conjecture of Kauffman…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Neslihan Gügümcü , Hamdi Kayaslan

Recent progress in string theory has led to a reformulation of quantum-group polynomial invariants for knots and links into new polynomial invariants whose coefficients can be understood in topological terms. We describe in detail how to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jose M. F. Labastida , Marcos Marino

We will announce some results on the values of quantum sl_2 invariants of knots and integral homology spheres. Lawrence's universal sl_2 invariant of knots takes values in a fairly small subalgebra of the center of the h-adic version of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kazuo Habiro

In this paper, we consider the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of knots in the three-sphere obtained from a twisted Drinfeld double of a Hopf algebra, or equivalently, the relative Drinfeld center of the crossed product…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Daniel López Neumann

We construct knot invariants categorifying the quantum knot variants for all representations of quantum groups. We show that these invariants coincide with previous invariants defined by Khovanov for sl_2 and sl_3 and by Mazorchuk-Stroppel…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Ben Webster

We show that a topological quantum computer based on the evaluation of a Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT invariant of knots can always be arranged so that the knot diagrams with which one computes are diagrams of hyperbolic knots. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Eric Samperton

In this paper, we study 2-representations of 2-quantum groups (in the sense of Rouquier and Khovanov-Lauda) categorifying tensor products of irreducible representations. Our aim is to construct knot homologies categorifying…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-06 Ben Webster