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We classify all knot diagrams of genus two and three, and give applications to positive, alternating and homogeneous knots, including a classification of achiral genus 2 alternating knots, slice or achiral 2-almost positive knots, a proof…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-08-30 A. Stoimenow

In a previous work, the first and third authors studied a random knot model for all two-bridge knots using billiard table diagrams. Here we present a closed formula for the distribution of the crossing numbers of such random knots. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Moshe Cohen , Chaim Even-Zohar , Sunder Ram Krishnan

This paper studies rotational virtual knot theory and its relationship with quantum link invariants. Every quantum link invariant for classical knots and links extends to an invariant of rotational virtual knots and links. The paper sets up…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Louis H. Kauffman

Tied links and the tied braid monoid were introduced recently by the authors and used to define new invariants for classical links. Here, we give a version purely algebraic-combinatoric of tied links. With this new version we prove that the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Francesca Aicardi , Jesus Juyumaya

Plamenevskaya defined an invariant of transverse links as a distinguished class in the even Khovanov homology of a link. We define an analog of Plamenevskaya's invariant in the odd Khovanov homology of Ozsv\'ath, Rasmussen, and Szab\'o. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Gabriel Montes de Oca

In this chapter (Chapter V) we present several results which demonstrate a close connection and useful exchange of ideas between graph theory and knot theory. These disciplines were shown to be related from the time of Tait (if not Listing)…

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

We prove the existence of a degree 7 Vassiliev invariant of long (or string) two-component links which is not preserved under the simultaneous change of orientation of both components. The non-invertibility of this invariant can be detected…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-29 S. V. Duzhin , M. V. Karev

New invariants of links are constructed using the skein invariant polynomial of colored links defined by the author in [1]. These invariants are stronger than the homflypt polynomial.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Francesca Aicardi

We introduce a new numerical invariant of knots and links from the descending diagrams. It is considered to live between the unknotting number and the bridge number.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-24 Makoto Ozawa

We refine Khovanov homology in the presence of an involution on the link. This refinement takes the form of a triply-graded theory, arising from a pair of filtrations. We focus primarily on strongly invertible knots and show, for instance,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Andrew Lobb , Liam Watson

We automate the process of machine learning correlations between knot invariants. For nearly 200,000 distinct sets of input knot invariants together with an output invariant, we attempt to learn the output invariant by training a neural…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Jessica Craven , Mark Hughes , Vishnu Jejjala , Arjun Kar

The aim of this paper is to define a homology theory for racks with finite rank N and use it to define invariants of knots generalizing the CJKLS 2-cocycle invariants related to the invariants defined in [15]. For this purpose, we prove…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Mohamed Elhamdadi , Sam Nelson

We categorise coherent band (aka nullification) pathways between knots and 2-component links. Additionally, we characterise the minimal coherent band pathways (with intermediates) between any two knots or 2-component links with small…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Dorothy Buck , Kai Ishihara

Quasi-alternating links are homologically thin for both Khovanov homology and knot Floer homology. We show that every quasi-alternating link gives rise to an infinite family of quasi-alternating links obtained by replacing a crossing with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-22 Abhijit Champanerkar , Ilya Kofman

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 survey we summarize results regarding the Kauffman bracket, HOMFLYPT, Kauffman 2-variable and Dubrovnik skein modules, and the Alexander polynomial of links in lens spaces, which we represent as mixed link diagrams. These invariants…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Boštjan Gabrovšek , Eva Horvat

For each positive integer n, Khovanov and Rozansky constructed an invariant of links in the form of a doubly-graded cohomology theory whose Euler characteristic is the sl(n) link polynomial. We use Lagrangian Floer cohomology on some…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ciprian Manolescu

We extend the notion of intersection graphs for knots in the theory of finite type invariants to string links. We use our definition to develop weight systems for string links via the adjacency matrix of the intersection graph, and show…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Blake Mellor

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

We calculate Jones polynomials $V(H_r,t)$ for a family of alternating knots and links $H_r$ with arbitrarily many crossings $r$, by computing the Tutte polynomials $T(G_+(H_r),x,y)$ for the associated graphs $G_+(H_r)$ and evaluating these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Yue Chen , Robert Shrock