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The contents of this 6-page paper have been subsumed into the 13-page paper, "A note on closed 3-braids", arXiv:0802.1072 [math.GT]. This paper is correct, but contains less information than the new one. The topological classification of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-02-11 Joan S. Birman , William W. Menasco

In this paper we deal with Seifert fibre spaces, which are compact 3-manifolds admitting a foliation by circles. We give a combinatorial description for these manifolds in all the possible cases: orientable, non-orientable, closed, with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Alessia Cattabriga , Sergei Matveev , Michele Mulazzani , Timur Nasybullov

In this paper, we study a special family of $(1,1)$ knots called constrained knots, which includes 2-bridge knots in the 3-sphere $S^3$ and simple knots in lens spaces. Constrained knots are parameterized by five integers and characterized…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Fan Ye

This paper presents a new algorithm "A" for constructing Seifert surfaces from n-bridge projections of links. The algorithm produces minimal complexity surfaces for large classes of braids and alternating links. In addition, we consider a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-02-01 Joan E. Licata

Topological features embedded in ancient braiding and knotting arts endow significant impacts on our daily life and even cutting-edge science. Recently, fast growing efforts are invested to the braiding topology of complex Bloch bands in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Qicheng Zhang , Yitong Li , Huanfa Sun , Xun Liu , Luekai Zhao , Xiling Feng , Xiying Fan , Chunyin Qiu

We study contact structures compatible with genus one open book decompositions with one boundary component. Any monodromy for such an open book can be written as a product of Dehn twists around dual non-separating curves in the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 John A. Baldwin

We take advantage of the correspondence between fibered links, open book decompositions and contact structures on a closed connected 3-dimensional manifold to determine a mixed link diagram presentation for a particular fibered link $L$ in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Enrico Manfredi , Alessio Savini

Recent work suggests that topological features of certain quantum gravity theories can be interpreted as particles, matching the known fermions and bosons of the first generation in the Standard Model. This is achieved by identifying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-01-15 Sundance Bilson-Thompson , Jonathan Hackett , Louis H. Kauffman

Making use of the equivalence between paraxial wave equation and two-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation, Gaussian beams of monochromatic light, possessing knotted nodal structures are obtained in an analytical way. These beams belong to the…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-30 Tomasz Radozycki

We present a topological interpretation of knot and braid contact homology in degree zero, in terms of cords and skein relations. This interpretation allows us to extend the knot invariant to embedded graphs and higher-dimensional knots. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Lenhard Ng

We study the booklink, a braid-like embedding with local maxima and minima, and the bridge-braid spectrum of a link, which captures the smallest number of braid-strands in a booklink with a prescribed number of critical points. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Margaret Doig , Chase Gehringer

From classical knot theory we know that every knot in $S^3$ is the boundary of an oriented, embedded surface. A standard demonstration of this fact achieved by elementary technique comes from taking a regular projection of any knot and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Linda V. Alegria , William W. Menasco

A simple analytical way of creating superpositions of Bessel-Gaussian light beams with knotted nodal lines is proposed. It is based on the equivalence between the paraxial wave equation and the two-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation for a…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-20 Tomasz Radozycki

Given a grid diagram for a knot or link K in $S^3$, we construct a filtered spectrum whose homology is the knot Floer homology of K. We conjecture that the filtered homotopy type of the spectrum is an invariant of K. Our construction does…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Ciprian Manolescu , Sucharit Sarkar

We study here global and local entanglements of open protein chains by implementing the concept of knotoids. Knotoids have been introduced in 2012 by Vladimir Turaev as a generalization of knots in 3-dimensional space. More precisely,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-06 Dimos Goundaroulis , Julien Dorier , Fabrizio Benedetti , Andrzej Stasiak

We introduce in this paper a field theory on symplectic manifolds that are fibered over a real surface with interior marked points and cylindrical ends. We assign to each such object a morphism between certain tensor products of quantum and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Francois Lalonde

Classical constrained Hamiltonian theory assumes complete observability of system states, but in reality only partial state information is often available. This paper establishes a complete geometric theoretical framework for handling such…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Dongzhe Zheng

In this survey paper we present results about link diagrams in Seifert manifolds using arrow diagrams, starting with link diagrams in $F\times S^1$ and $N\hat{\times}S^1$, where $F$ is an orientable and $N$ an unorientable surface.…

General Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Boštjan Gabrovšek , Maciej Mroczkowski

Skew braces are intensively studied owing to their wide ranging connections and applications. We generalize the definition of a skew brace to give a new algebraic object, which we term a skew bracoid. Our construction involves two groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Isabel Martin-Lyons , Paul J. Truman

We consider complements of standard Seifert surfaces of special alternating links. On these handlebodies, we use Honda's method to enumerate those tight contact structures whose dividing sets are isotopic to the link, and find their number…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Tamás Kálmán , Daniel V. Mathews