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We generalize the notion of the quandle polynomial to the case of singquandles. We show that the singquandle polynomial is an invariant of finite singquandles. We also construct a singular link invariant from the singquandle polynomial and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Jose Ceniceros , Indu R. Churchill , Mohamed Elhamdadi

We define a family of generalizations of the two-variable quandle polynomial. These polynomial invariants generalize in a natural way to eight-variable polynomial invariants of finite biquandles. We use these polynomials to define a family…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Sam Nelson

We introduce a generalization of the quandle polynomial. We prove that our polynomial is an invariant of stuquandles. Furthermore, we use the invariant of stuquandles to define a polynomial invariant of stuck links. As a byproduct, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Ekaterina Bondarenko , Jose Ceniceros , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Brooke Jones

It is known that the number of biquandle colorings of a long virtual knot diagram, with a fixed color of the initial arc, is a knot invariant. In this paper we describe a more subtle invariant: a family of biquandle endomorphisms obtained…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Maciej Niebrzydowski

This article introduces a natural extension of colouring numbers of knots, called colouring polynomials, and studies their relationship to Yang-Baxter invariants and quandle 2-cocycle invariants. For a knot K in the 3-sphere let \pi_K be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-11-20 Michael Eisermann

Biracks are algebraic structures related to knots and links. We define a new enhancement of the birack counting invariant for oriented classical and virtual knots and links via algebraic structures called birack dynamical cocycles. The new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-05-22 Sam Nelson , Emily Watterberg

We consider birack and switch colorings of braids. We define a switch structure on the set of permutation representations of the braid group and consider when such a representation is a switch automorphism. We define quiver-valued…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Max Chao-Haft , Sam Nelson

To a singular knot K with n double points, one can associate a chord diagram with n chords. A chord diagram can also be understood as a 4-regular graph endowed with an oriented Euler circuit. L. Traldi introduced a polynomial invariant for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Alexander Dunaykin , Vyacheslav Zhukov

The knot coloring polynomial defined by Eisermann for a finite pointed group is generalized to an infinite pointed group as the longitudinal mapping invariant of a knot. In turn this can be thought of as a generalization of the quandle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-27 W. Edwin Clark , Masahico Saito

Three new knot invariants are defined using cocycles of the generalized quandle homology theory that was proposed by Andruskiewitsch and Gra\~na. We specialize that theory to the case when there is a group action on the coefficients. First,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Scott Carter , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Matias Graña , Masahico Saito

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

In their paper entitled "Quantum Enhancements and Biquandle Brackets," Nelson, Orrison, and Rivera introduced biquandle brackets, which are customized skein invariants for biquandle-colored links. These invariants generalize the Jones…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Adu Vengal , Vilas Winstein

Birack modules are modules over an algebra Z[X] associated to a finite birack X. In previous work, birack module structures on Z mod n were used to enhance the birack counting invariant. In this paper, we use birack modules over Laurent…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-12 Evan Cody , Sam Nelson

We define and study a bigraded knot invariant whose Euler characteristic is the Alexander polynomial, closely connected to knot Floer homology. The invariant is the homology of a chain complex whose generators correspond to Kauffman states…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Peter Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

We generalize the colored Jones polynomial to $4$-valent graphs. This generalization is given as a sequence of invariants in which the first term is a one variable specialization of the Kauffman-Vogel polynomial. We use the invariant we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Khaled Bataineh , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Mustafa Hajij

A birack is an algebraic structure with axioms encoding the blackboard-framed Reidemeister moves, incorporating quandles, racks, strong biquandles and semiquandles as special cases. In this paper we extend the counting invariant for finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-12-23 Sam Nelson

A homology theory is developed for set-theoretic Yang-Baxter equations, and knot invariants are constructed by generalized colorings by biquandles and Yang-Baxter cocycles.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Scott Carter , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Masahico Saito

We study rack polynomials and the link invariants they define. We show that constant action racks are classified by their generalized rack polynomials and show that $ns^at^a$-quandles are not classified by their generalized quandle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Tim Carrell , Sam Nelson

This paper discusses the construction of a generalized Alexander polynomial for virtual knots and links, and the reformulation of this invariant as a quantum link invariant. The algebraic background for the generalized Alexander module is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis H. Kauffman , David E. Radford

As a generalization of the classical knots, knotoids deal with the open ended knot diagrams in a surface. In recent years, many polynomial invariants for knotoids have appeared, such as the bracket polynomial, the index polynomial and the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Yi Feng , Fengling Li
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