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In this paper, we extend the theory of planar pseudo knots to the theories of annular and toroidal pseudo knots. Pseudo knots are defined as equivalence classes under Reidemeister-like moves of knot diagrams characterized by crossings with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Ioannis Diamantis , Sofia Lambropoulou , Sonia Mahmoudi

In this paper we study the theory of knotoids and braidoids and the theory of pseudo knotoids and pseudo braidoids on the torus T. In particular, we introduce the notion of {\it mixed knotoids} in $S^2$, that generalize the notion of mixed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Ioannis Diamantis

In this paper, we extend the definition of a knotoid that was introduced by Turaev, to multi-linkoids that consist of a number of knot and knotoid components. We study invariants of multi-linkoids that lie in a closed orientable surface,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Boštjan Gabrovšek , Neslihan Gügümcü

Pseudo links are equivalence classes under Reidemeister-type moves of link diagrams containing crossings with undefined over and under information. In this paper, we extend the Kauffman bracket and Jones-type polynomials from planar pseudo…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Ioannis Diamantis , Sofia Lambropoulou , Sonia Mahmoudi

In 2010, Turaev introduced knotoids as a variation on knots that replaces the embedding of a circle with the embedding of a closed interval with two endpoints which here we call poles. We define generalized knotoids to allow arbitrarily…

In 2010, Turaev introduced knotoids as a variation on knots that replaces the embedding of a circle with the embedding of a closed interval with two endpoints. A variety of knot invariants have been extended to knotoids. Here we provide…

Knotoids were introduced by V. Turaev as open-ended knot-type diagrams that generalize knots. Turaev defined a two-variable polynomial invariant of knotoids which encompasses a generalization of the Jones knot polynomial to knotoids. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Deniz Kutluay

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

The mock Alexander polynomial is an extension of the classical Alexander polynomial, defined and studied for (virtual) knots and knotoids by the second and third authors. In this paper we consider the mock Alexander polynomial for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan , Neslihan Gügümcü , Louis H. Kauffman , Wout Moltmaker

The motivation for this work is to construct a map from classical knots to virtual ones. What we get in the paper is a series of maps from knots in the full torus (thickened torus) to flat-virtual knots. We give definition of flat-virtual…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-21 V. O. Manturov , I. M. Nikonov

Torus knots are an important family of knots about which much is understood; invariants of torus knots often exhibit nice formulas, making them convenient and fundamental building blocks for examples in knot theory. Spiral knots, defined…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Sarah Blackwell , Ashish Das , Sydney Mayer , Luke Moyar , Faisal Quraishi , Ryan Stees

Braidoids generalize the classical braids and form a counterpart theory to the theory of planar knotoids, just as the theory of braids does for the theory of knots. In this paper, we introduce basic notions of braidoids, a closure operation…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Neslihan Gügümcü , Sofia Lambropoulou

By using double branched covers, we prove that there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of knotoids in the 2-sphere, up to orientation reversion and rotation, and knots with a strong inversion, up to conjugacy. This correspondence…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Agnese Barbensi , Dorothy Buck , Heather A. Harrington , Marc Lackenby

Twisted torus knots are a generalization of torus knots, obtained by introducing additional full twists to adjacent strands of the torus knots. In this article, we present an explicit formula for the Alexander polynomial of twisted torus…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Adnan , Kyungbae Park

Knotoid theory is a generalization of knot theory introduced by Turaev in 2012. In recent years, various invariants of knotoids have been studied. In this paper, we mainly discuss unknotting moves and unknotting numbers of plus-welded…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Fengling Li , Andrei Vesnin , Xuan Yang

We extend the theory of Vassiliev (or finite type) invariants for knots to knotoids using two different approaches. Firstly, we take closures on knotoids to obtain knots and we use the Vassiliev invariants for knots, proving that these are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Manousos Manouras , Sofia Lambropoulou , Louis H. Kauffman

Bonded knots arise naturally in topological protein modeling, where intramolecular interactions such as disulfide bridges stabilize folded configurations. These structures extend classical knot theory by incorporating embedded graphs, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Paolo Cavicchioli , Boštjan Gabrovšek , Matic Simonič

We modify the definition of spherical knotoids to include a framing, in analogy to framed knots, and define a further modification that includes a secondary 'coframing' to obtain 'biframed' knotoids. We exhibit topological spaces whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Wout Moltmaker

In this paper, we give a geometric interpretation of virtual knotoids as arcs in thickened surfaces. Then we show that virtual knotoid theory is a generalization of classical knotoid theory. This gives a proof of a conjecture of Kauffman…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Neslihan Gügümcü , Hamdi Kayaslan

The classical Thistlethwaite theorem for links can be phrased as asserting that the Kauffman bracket of a link can be obtained from an evaluation of the Bollob\'as-Riordan polynomial of a ribbon graph associated to one of the link's…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Sergei Chmutov , Qingying Deng , Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan , Sergei Lando , Wout Moltmaker
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