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In the prequel of this paper, Kauffman and Ogasa introduced new topological quantum invariants of compact oriented 3-manifolds with boundary where the boundary is a disjoint union of two identical surfaces. The invariants are constructed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Heather A. Dye , Louis H. Kauffman , Eiji Ogasa

We reconfigure the Milnor invariant of links in terms of central group extensions and unipotent Magnus embeddings. We also develop a diagrammatic computation of the invariant and compute the first non-vanishing invariants of the Milnor link…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Hisatoshi Kodani , Takefumi Nosaka

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 method to obtain explicit and complete topological solution of SU(2) Chern-Simons theory on $S^3$ is developed. To this effect the necessary aspects of the theory of coloured-oriented braids and duality properties of conformal blocks for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 R. K. Kaul

We construct graph-valued analogues of the Kuperberg sl(3) and G2 invariants for virtual knots. The restriction of the sl(3) or G2 invariants for classical knots coincides with the usual Homflypt sl(3) invariant and G2 invariants. For…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-11 Louis Hirsch Kauffman , Vassily Olegovich Manturov

Symmetry of geometrical figures is reflected in regularities of their algebraic invariants. Algebraic regularities are often preserved when the geometrical figure is topologically deformed. The most natural, intuitively simple but…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jozef H. Przytycki

This paper is a self-contained development of an invariant of graphs embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space using the Jones polynomial and skein theory. Some examples of the invariant are computed. An unlinked embedded graph is one…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John W. Barrett

In this note we define a polynomial invariant for colored links by a skein relation. It specializes to the Jones polynomial for classical links.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Francesca Aicardi

Two geometric spaces are in the same topological class if they are related by certain geometric deformations. We propose machine learning methods that automate learning of topological invariance and apply it in the context of knot theory,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-18 James Halverson , Fabian Ruehle

We construct an endomorphism of the Khovanov invariant to prove H-thinness and pairing phenomena of the invariants for alternating links. As a consequence, it follows that the Khovanov invariant of an oriented nonsplit alternating link is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eun Soo Lee

This monograph derives direct and concrete relations between colored Jones polynomials and the topology of incompressible spanning surfaces in knot and link complements. Under mild diagrammatic hypotheses that arise naturally in the study…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-11-14 David Futer , Efstratia Kalfagianni , Jessica S. Purcell

Knots and links in 3-manifolds are studied by applying intersection invariants to singular concordances. The resulting link invariants generalize the Arf invariant, the mod 2 Sato-Levine invariants, and Milnor's triple linking numbers.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Rob Schneiderman

In 2000, Habiro introduced the notion of $C_k$-equivalence of knots and links. This geometric filtration is closely connected to finite type invariants, a class of invariants including Milnor's invariants. Shortly thereafter, Ohyama,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Anthony Bosman , Christopher W. Davis , Taylor Martin , Katherine Vance

A Gauss diagram is a simple, combinatorial way to present a knot. It is known that any Vassiliev invariant may be obtained from a Gauss diagram formula that involves counting (with signs and multiplicities) subdiagrams of certain…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Michael Brandenbursky

Links of singularity and generalized algebraic links are ways of constructing three-manifolds and smooth links inside them from potentially singular complex algebraic surfaces and complex curves inside them. We prove that knot lattice…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Seppo Niemi-Colvin

By using the notion of a rigid R-matrix in a monoidal category and the Reshetikhin--Turaev functor on the category of tangles, we review the definition of the associated invariant of long knots. In the framework of the monoidal categories…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Rinat Kashaev

Milnor's $\bar{\mu}$-invariants of links in the $3$-sphere $S^3$ vanish on any link concordant to a boundary link. In particular, they are trivial on any knot in $S^3$. Here we consider knots in thickened surfaces $\Sigma \times [0,1]$,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Micah Chrisman

Building further on work of Marin and Wagner, we give a cubic braid-type skein theory of the Links--Gould polynomial invariant of oriented links and prove that it can be used to evaluate any oriented link, adding this polynomial to the list…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Stavros Garoufalidis , Matthew Harper , Rinat Kashaev , Ben-Michael Kohli , Jiebo Song , Guillaume Tahar

In this paper we conjecture that the Links-Gould invariant of links, that we know is a generalization of the Alexander-Conway polynomial, shares some of its classical features. In particular it seems to give a lower bound for the genus of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Ben-Michael Kohli

We compute the invariants for a class of knots and links in arbitrary representations in $S^3/\mathbb{Z}_p$ in the large $k$ (level), large $N$ (rank) limit, keeping $N/(k+N)=\lambda$ fixed, in $U(N)$ and $Sp(N)$ Chern-Simons theories.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-25 Kushal Chakraborty , Suvankar Dutta