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Recent work suggests that topological features of certain quantum gravity theories can be interpreted as particles, matching the known fermions and bosons of the first generation in the Standard Model. This is achieved by identifying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-01-15 Sundance Bilson-Thompson , Jonathan Hackett , Louis H. Kauffman

Given a finite graph $\Gamma$, the associated graph braid group $B_n(\Gamma)$ is the fundamental group of the unordered $n$-point configuration space of $\Gamma$. Genevois classified which graph braid groups are Gromov hyperbolic and asked…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Saumya Jain , Huong Vo

We discuss the fundamental (relative) 3-classes of knots (or hyperbolic links), and provide diagrammatic descriptions of the push-forwards with respect to every link-group representation. The point is an observation of a bridge between the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-17 Takefumi Nosaka

Khovanov and Rozansky's categorification of the HOMFLY-PT polynomial is invariant under braidlike isotopies for any link diagram and Markov moves for braid closures. To define HOMFLY-PT homology, they required a link to be presented as a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Michael Abel

In this paper, we prove than given two cubic knots $K_1$, $K_2$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$, they are isotopic if and only if one can pass from one to the other by a finite sequence of cubulated moves. These moves are analogous to the Reidemeister…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Gabriela Hinojosa , Alberto Verjosvky , Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte

We study the graphs generated when the formula for linking Markov triples is applied to general triples of integers. We find there are a finite number of equivalence classes of graphs, each with particular properties.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Spencer Scutt , Mark Turpin

In this article, we propose a new approach for describing and understanding knots and links in a 3-manifold through the use of an embedded non-orientable surface. Specifically, we define a plat-like representation based on this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Alessia Cattabriga , Paolo Cavicchioli , Rama Mishra , Visakh Narayanan

Twin groups and virtual twin groups are planar analogues of braid groups and virtual braid groups, respectively. These groups play the role of braid groups in the Alexander-Markov correspondence for the theory of stable isotopy classes of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Tushar Kanta Naik , Neha Nanda , Mahender Singh

Link equivalence up to isotopy in a 3-space is the problem that lies at the root of knot theory, and is important in 3-dimensional topology and geometry. We consider its restriction to alternating links, given by two alternating diagrams…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Touseef Haider , Anastasiia Tsvietkova

The Markov Theorem Without Stabilization (MTWS) established the existence of a calculus of braid isotopies that can be used to move between closed braid representatives of a given oriented link type without having to increase the braid…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-01-27 William W. Menasco

Braiding operators corresponding to the third Reidemeister move in the theory of knots and links are realized in terms of parametrized unitary matrices for all dimensions. Two distinct classes are considered. Their (non-local) unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Abdesselam , A. Chakrabarti

We prove that if n\ge1, then an (n+1)-component Brunnian link L in a connected, oriented 3-manifold is C_n-equivalent to an unlink. We also prove that if n\ge2, then L can not be distinguished from an unlink by any Goussarov-Vassiliev…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kazuo Habiro

The purpose of this paper is to interpret polynomial invariants of strongly invertible links in terms of Khovanov homology theory. To a divide, that is a proper generic immersion of a finite number of copies of the unit interval and circles…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-26 Olivier Couture

We generalized the periodic links to \emph{transitive} links in a $3$-manifold $M$. We find a complete classification theorem of transitive links in a $3$-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{R}^3$. We study these links from several different…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Dongseok Kim

Braided deformations of (symmetric) monoidal categories are related to Vassiliev theory by a direct generalization of well-known results relating "quantum" knot invariants to Vassiliev invariants. The deformation theory of braidings is…

q-alg · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David N. Yetter

Motivated by physical and topological applications, we study representations of the group $\mathcal{LB}_3$ of motions of $3$ unlinked oriented circles in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Our point of view is to regard the three strand braid group…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Paul Bruillard , Liang Chang , Seung-Moon Hong , Julia Yael Plavnik , Eric C. Rowell , Michael Yuan Sun

Symmetric independence relations are often studied using graphical representations. Ancestral graphs or acyclic directed mixed graphs with $m$-separation provide classes of symmetric graphical independence models that are closed under…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Søren Wengel Mogensen , Niels Richard Hansen

Twisted knot theory introduced by M. Bourgoin is a generalization of knot theory. It leads us to the notion of twisted virtual braids. In this paper we show theorems for twisted links corresponding to the Alexander theorem and the Markov…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Komal Negi , Madeti Prabhakar , Seiichi Kamada

Choose any oriented link type X and closed braid representatives X[+], X[-] of X, where X[-] has minimal braid index among all closed braid representatives of X. The main result of this paper is a `Markov theorem without stabilization'. It…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-03 Joan S Birman , William W Menasco

In this paper we study properties of the Markov trace ${\rm tr}_d$ and the specialized trace ${\rm tr}_{d,D}$ on the Yokonuma-Hecke algebras, such as behaviour under inversion of a word, connected sums and mirror imaging. We then define…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Sergei Chmutov , Slavik Jablan , Konstantinos Karvounis , Sofia Lambropoulou