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We extend to the long virtual knot case the constructions first presented by A. Henrich and later generalized by the author to the framed virtual knot case. These consist of three Vassiliev invariants of order one, including a universal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Nicolas Petit

Classical knot theory can be generalized to virtual knot theory and spatial graph theory. In 2007, Fleming and Mellor combined virtual knot theory and spatial graph theory to form, combinatorially, virtual spatial graph theory. In this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Qingying Deng , Xian'an Jin , Louis H. Kauffman

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

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

In this paper, we define the notion of a virtually symmetric representation of representations of virtual braid groups and prove that many known representations are equivalent to virtually symmetric. Using one such representation, we define…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Valeriy G. Bardakov , Mikhail V. Neshchadim , Manpreet Singh

F-polynomials for virtual knots were defined by Kaur, Prabhakar and Vesnin in 2018 using flat virtual knot invariants. These polynomials naturally generalize Kauffman's affine index polynomial and use smoothing in classical crossing of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Amrendra Gill , Maxim Ivanov , Madeti Prabhakar , Andrei Vesnin

Symplectic fillings of standard tight contact structures on lens spaces are understood and classified. The situation is different if one considers non-standard tight structures (i.e. those that are virtually overtwisted), for which a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Edoardo Fossati

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

This paper defines a new invariant of virtual knots and links that we call the extended bracket polynomial, and denote by <<K>> for a virtual knot or link K. This invariant is a state summation over bracket states of the oriented diagram…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-23 Louis H. Kauffman

We succeed to generalize spun knots of classical 1-knots to the virtual 1-knot case by using the `spinning construction'. That, is, we prove the following: Let $Q$ be a spun knot of a virtual 1-knot $K$ by our method. The embedding type $Q$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Louis H. Kauffman , Eiji Ogasa , Jonathan Schneider

We first prove the Grinberg-Kazhdan formal arc theorem without any assumptions on the characteristic. This part of the article is equivalent to arXiv:math-AG/0203263. Then we try to clarify the geometric ideas behind the proof by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-25 Vladimir Drinfeld

The aim of the present paper is to construct series of invariants of free knots (flat virtual knots, virtual knots) valued in free groups (and also free products of cyclic groups). (Some minor mistakes are corrected)

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Vassily Olegovich Manturov

In this paper, we study alternating links in thickened surfaces in terms of the lattices of integer flows on their Tait graphs. We use this approach to give a short proof of the first two generalised Tait conjectures. We also prove that the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Hans U. Boden , Zsuzsanna Dancso , Damian J. Lin , Tilda S. Wilkinson-Finch

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 the present paper, we construct an invariant for virtual knots in the thickened sphere with g handles; this invariant is a Laurent polynomial in 2g+3 variables. To this end, we use a modification of the Wirtinger presentation of the knot…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-10 M. V. Zenkina

We prove that the groupoid of transformations of rigid structures on surfaces has a finite presentation as a 2-groupoid establishing a result first conjectured by G.Moore and N.Seiberg. An alternative proof was given by B.Bakalov and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis Funar , Razvan Gelca

Let $n$ be a positive integer. The aim of this paper is to study two local moves $V(n)$ and $V^{n}$ on welded links, which are generalizations of the crossing virtualization. We show that the $V(n)$-move is an unknotting operation on welded…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Haruko A. Miyazawa , Kodai Wada , Akira Yasuhara

This paper introduces the notion of twisted toric manifolds which is a generalization of one of symplectic toric manifolds, and proves the weak Delzant type classification theorem for them. The computation methods for their fundamental…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Takahiko Yoshida

The writhe polynomial is a fundamental invariant of an oriented virtual knot. We introduce a kind of local moves for oriented virtual knots called shell moves. The first aim of this paper is to prove that two oriented virtual knots have the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Takuji Nakamura , Yasutaka Nakanishi , Shin Satoh

In the present study we consider knotted spheres in Euclidean $4$-space $ \mathbb{E}^{4}$. Firstly, we give some basic curvature properties of knotted spheres in $ \mathbb{E}^{4}$. Further, we obtained some results related with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Kadri Arslan