English
Related papers

Related papers: On invariants of multiplexed virtual links

200 papers

We introduce quiver representation-valued invariants of oriented virtual knots and links associated to a choice of finite virtual biquandle, abelian group, set of virtual Boltzmann weights, commutative unital ring and set of virtual…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Alexander Bishop , Jose Ceniceros , Sam Nelson

We define three different types of spanning surfaces for knots in thickened surfaces. We use these to introduce new Seifert matrices, Alexander-type polynomials, genera, and a signature invariant. One of these Alexander polynomials extends…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-18 András Juhász , Louis H. Kauffman , Eiji Ogasa

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

Using the combinatorial approach to knot Floer homology, we define an invariant for Legendrian knots in the three-sphere, which takes values in link Floer homology. This invariant can be used to also construct an invariant of transverse…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo , Dylan Thurston

In [8], K. Kaur, S. Kamada et al. posed a problem of finding a virtual knot, if exists, with an unknotting index (n,m), where (n,m) is a pair of non-negative integers. In this paper, we address this question by providing infinite families…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-23 K. Kaur , M. Prabhakar

We define invariants of unoriented knots and links by enhancing the integral kei counting invariant Phi_X^Z (K) for a finite kei X using representations of the kei algebra, Z_K[X], a quotient of the quandle algebra Z[X] defined by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-02-23 Mike Grier , Sam Nelson

A group invariant for links in thickened closed orientable surfaces is studied. Associated polynomial invariants are defined. The group detects nontriviality of a virtual link and determines its virtual genus.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 J. Scott Carter , Daniel S. Silver , Susan G. Williams

We present two different constructions of invariants for Legendrian knots in the standard contact space $\R^3$. These invariants are defined combinatorially, in terms of certain planar projections, and are useful in distinguishing…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri Chekanov

We define a generalization of virtual links to arbitrary dimensions by extending the geometric definition due to Carter et al. We show that many homotopy type invariants for classical links extend to invariants of virtual links. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-04 Blake Winter

Vassiliev's knot invariants can be computed in different ways but many of them as Kontsevich integral are very difficult. We consider more visual diagram formulas of the type Polyak-Viro and give new diagram formula for the two basic…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Svetlana D. Tyurina

In this paper, we define the parity virtual Alexander polynomial following the work of BDGGHN [1] and Kaestner and Kauffman [10]. The properties of this invariant are explored and some examples are computed. In particular, the invariant…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Heather A. Dye , Aaron Kaestner

We give formulas expressing Milnor invariants of an n-component link L in the 3-sphere in terms of the HOMFLYPT polynomial as follows. If the Milnor invariant \bar{\mu}_J(L) vanishes for any sequence J with length at most k, then any Milnor…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Jean-Baptiste Meilhan , Akira Yasuhara

Recently, Bigelow defined a diagrammatic method for calculating the Alexander polynomial of a knot or link by resolving crossings in a planar algebra. I will present my multivariate version of Bigelow's calculation. The advantage to my…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-20 K. Grace Kennedy

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 generalize three invariants, first discovered by A. Henrich, to the long and/or framed virtual knot case. These invariants are all finite-type invariants of order one, and include a universal one. The generalization will require us to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Nicolas Petit

We introduce the 2-colour parity. It is a theory of parity for a large class of virtual links, defined using the interaction between orientations of the link components and a certain type of colouring. The 2-colour parity is an extension of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-02-01 William Rushworth

Alexander group systems for virtual long knots are defined and used to show that any virtual knot is the closure of infinitely many long virtual knots. Manturov's result that there exists a pair of long virtual knots that do not commute is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel S. Silver , Susan G. Williams

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

We construct new invariant polynomial for long virtual knots. It is a generalization of Alexander polynomial. We designate it by $\zeta$ meaning an analogy with $\zeta$-polynomial for virtual links. A degree of $\zeta$-polynomial estimates…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-06-24 Afanasiev Denis

We automate the process of machine learning correlations between knot invariants. For nearly 200,000 distinct sets of input knot invariants together with an output invariant, we attempt to learn the output invariant by training a neural…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Jessica Craven , Mark Hughes , Vishnu Jejjala , Arjun Kar