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In this paper we introduce a new invariant of virtual knots and links that is non-trivial for infinitely many virtuals, but is trivial on classical knots and links. The invariant is initially be expressed in terms of a relative of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis H. Kauffman

In the present paper, we describe new approaches for constructing virtual knot invariants. The main background of this paper comes from formulating and bringing together the ideas of biquandle (Kauffman and Radford) the virtual quandle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis Kauffman , Vassily Olegovich Manturov

Virtual knot theory has experienced a lot of nice features that did not appear in classical knot theory, e.g., parity and picture-valued invariants. In the present paper we use virtual knot theory effects to construct new representations of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-03 V. O. Manturov , I. M. Nikonov

This paper studies rotational virtual knot theory and its relationship with quantum link invariants. Every quantum link invariant for classical knots and links extends to an invariant of rotational virtual knots and links. The paper sets up…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Louis H. Kauffman

We construct various functorial maps (projections) from virtual knots to classical knots. These maps are defined on diagrams of virtual knots; in terms of Gauss diagram each of them can be represented as a deletion of some chords. The…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Vassily Olegovich Manturov

Torus knots are an important family of knots about which much is understood; invariants of torus knots often exhibit nice formulas, making them convenient and fundamental building blocks for examples in knot theory. Spiral knots, defined…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Sarah Blackwell , Ashish Das , Sydney Mayer , Luke Moyar , Faisal Quraishi , Ryan Stees

Both classical and virtual knots arise as formal Gauss diagrams modulo some abstract moves corresponding to Reidemeister moves. If we forget about both over/under crossings structure and writhe numbers of knots modulo the same Reidemeister…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-02-03 Vassily Olegovich Manturov

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

This paper is an introduction to the subject of virtual knot theory, combined with a discussion of some specific new theorems about virtual knots. The new results are as follows: We prove, using a 3-dimensional topology approach that if a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis Kauffman , Vassily Olegovich Manturov

This paper extends the construction of invariants for virtual knots to virtual long knots and introduces two new invariant modules of virtual long knots. Several interesting features are described that distinguish virtual long knots from…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-06-01 Andrew Bartholomew , Roger Fenn , Naoko Kamada , Seiichi Kamada

Virtual knot theory is a generalization (discovered by the author in 1996) of knot theory to the study of all oriented Gauss codes. (Classical knot theory is a study of planar Gauss codes.) Graph theory studies non-planar graphs via…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis H. Kauffman

We generalize the classical study of Alexander polynomials of smooth or PL locally-flat knots to PL knots that are not necessarily locally-flat. We introduce three families of generalized Alexander polynomials and study their properties.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-31 Greg Friedman

We define a family of virtual knots generalizing the classical twist knots. We develop a recursive formula for the Alexander polynomial $\Delta_0$ (as defined by Silver and Williams) of these virtual twist knots. These results are applied…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Isaac Benioff , Blake Mellor

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

A sequence of $F$-polynomials $\{ F^n_K (t, \ell)\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ of virtual knots $K$ was defined by Kaur, Prabhakar, and Vesnin in 2018. These polynomials have been expressed in terms of index value of crossing and $n$-writhe of $K$. By…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Maxim Ivanov , Andrei Vesnin

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 consider knot theories possessing a {\em parity}: each crossing is decreed {\em odd} or {\em even} according to some universal rule. If this rule satisfies some simple axioms concerning the behaviour under Reidemeister moves, this leads…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Vassily Olegovich Manturov

In this paper we define and give examples of a family of polynomial invariants of virtual knots and links. They arise by considering certain 2$\times$2 matrices with entries in a possibly non-commutative ring, for example the quaternions.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew Bartholomew , Roger Fenn

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

We construct an infinite commutative lattice of groups whose dual spaces give Kauffman finite-type invariants of long virtual knots. The lattice is based "horizontally" upon the Polyak algebra and extended "vertically" using Manturov's…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-04-01 Micah W. Chrisman