Related papers: Lagrangian knots and unknots -- an essay
We present in this chapter (Chapter II) the history of ideas which lead up to the development of modern knot theory. We are more detailed when pre-XX century history is reported. With more recent times we are more selective, stressing…
This is a survey paper on algorithms for solving problems in 3-dimensional topology. In particular, it discusses Haken's approach to the recognition of the unknot, and recent variations.
We have studied numerically Faddeev-Hopf knots, which are defined as those unit-vector fields in $R^3$ that have a nontrivial Hopf charge and minimize Faddeev's Lagrangian. A given initial configuration was allowed to relax into a (local)…
These notes are based on the lectures given by the author during Winter Braids IX in Reims in March 2019. We discuss slice knots and why they are interesting, as well as some ways to decide if a given knot is or is not slice. We describe…
The aim of this paper is to realise the techniques of picture-valued invariants and invariants valued in free groups for long knots in the full torus. Such knots and links are of a particular interest because of their relation to Legendrian…
After reconsidering the Dasbach-Hougardy counterexample to the Kauffman Conjecture on alternating knots, we reformulate the conjecture and consider Dasbach-Hougardy counterexample and similar counterexamples in the light of the reformulated…
A knot is an an embedding of a circle into three-dimensional space. We say that a knot is unknotted if there is an ambient isotopy of the embedding to a standard circle. By representing knots via planar diagrams, we discuss the problem of…
We consider knot invariants in the context of large $N$ transitions of topological strings. In particular we consider aspects of Lagrangian cycles associated to knots in the conifold geometry. We show how these can be explicity constructed…
This is a chapter surveying the current state of our understanding of tilings with infinite local complexity. It is intended to appear in the volume {\em Directions in Aperiodic Order}, D. Lenz, J. Kellendonk, and J. Savienen, eds.
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…
Knotted solutions to electromagnetism are investigated as an independent subsector of the theory. We write down a Lagrangian and a Hamiltonian formulation of Bateman's construction for the knotted electromagnetic solutions. We introduce a…
We classify Legendrian rational unknots with tight complements in the lens spaces L(p,1) up to coarse equivalence. As an example of the general case, this classification is also worked out for L(5,2). The knots are described explicitly in a…
We explore a number of examples of special Lagrangian fibrations on non-compact Calabi-Yau manifolds invariant under torus actions. These include fibrations on crepant resolutions of canonical toric singularities (already found by…
This is an expository note to give a brief review of classical elastica theory, mainly prepared for giving a more detailed proof of the author's Li--Yau type inequality for self-intersecting curves in Euclidean space. We also discuss some…
We review recent developments in the theory of Thompson group representations related to knot theory.
In this short note we observe that a result of Eliashberg and Polterovitch allows to use the doubly slice genus as an obstruction for a Legendrian knot to be a slice of a concordance from the trivial Legendrian knot with maximal…
We show the smooth version of the nearby Lagrangian conjecture for the 2-dimensional pair of pants and the Hamiltonian version for the cylinder. In other words, for any closed exact Lagrangian submanifold of $T^{*}M$, there is a smooth or…
In this short note we use methods of Friedl, Livingston and Zentner to show that there are knots that are not algebraically concordant to a connected sum of positive and negative L-space knots.
These are lecture notes focusing on recent progress towards Bourgain's slicing problem and the isoperimetric conjecture proposed by Kannan, Lovasz and Simonovits (KLS).
In this paper, we study Legendrian realizations of cable links of knot types that are uniformly thick but not Legendrian simple, extending prior work of Dalton, the second author, and Traynor. This leads to new phenomena, such as stabilized…