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A fixed knot $K$ acts via Murasugi sum on the space $\mathcal{S}$ of isotopy classes of knots. This operation endows $\mathcal{S}$ with a directed graph structure denoted by $M\kern-1pt SG(K)$. We show that any given family of knots in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Jared Able , Mikami Hirasawa

Arboreal singularities are an important class of Lagrangian singularities. They are conical, meaning that they can be understood by studying their links, which are singular Legendrian spaces in $S^{2n-1}_{\text{std}}$. Loose Legendrians are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Emmy Murphy

We prime-encode the natural numbers via recursive factorisation, iterated to the exponents, generating a corpus of planar rooted trees equivalently represented as Dyck words. This forms a deterministic text endowed with internal rules.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Pierluigi Contucci , Claudio Giberti , Godwin Osabutey , Cecilia Vernia

We characterize those 1-ended word hyperbolic groups whose Gromov boundaries are homeomorphic to trees of graphs (i.e. to inverse limits of graphs that have particularly simple finitary descriptions). These are groups with the simplest…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Nima Hoda , Jacek Świątkowski

Given a fibered link, consider the characteristic polynomial of the monodromy restricted to first homology. This generalizes the notion of the Alexander polynomial of a knot. We define a construction, called iterated plumbing, to create a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eriko Hironaka

The group of any nontrivial torus knot, hyperbolic 2-bridge knot, or hyperbolic knot with unknotting number one contains infinitely many elements, none the automorphic image of another, such that each normally generates the group.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-18 Daniel S. Silver , Wilbur Whitten , Susan G. Williams

In this paper we generate and systematically classify all prime planar knotoids with up to 5 crossings. We also extend the existing list of knotoids in $S^2$ and add all knotoids with 6 crossings.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Dimos Goundaroulis , Julien Dorier , Andrzej Stasiak

We show that the topological classification and the smooth classification are generically the same for certain families of plane curves in a semi-local case(the double local case). Especially we give the normal form of transversely jointed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean Paul Dufour , Yasuhiro Kurokawa

The family of trees with palindromic characteristic polynomials is characterized. Large families of graphs with this property are found as well.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Tadashi Akagi , Eduardo A. Canale

We show that the subgroup of the knot concordance group generated by links of isolated complex singularities intersects the subgroup of algebraically slice knots in an infinite rank subgroup.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Matthew Hedden , Paul Kirk , Charles Livingston

We consider questions related to the existence of spanning trees in graphs with the property that after the removal of any path in the tree the graph remains connected. We show that, for planar graphs, the existence of trees with this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Cristina G. Fernandes , César Hernández-Vélez , Orlando Lee , José C. de Pina

The stratum $\mathcal{H}(a,-b_{1},\dots,-b_{p})$ of meromorphic $1$-forms with a zero of order $a$ and poles of orders $b_{1},\dots,b_{p}$ on the Riemann sphere has a map, the isoresidual fibration, defined by assigning to any differential…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Quentin Gendron , Guillaume Tahar

We study a twisted Alexander polynomial naturally associated to a hyperbolic knot in an integer homology 3-sphere via a lift of the holonomy representation to SL(2, C). It is an unambiguous symmetric Laurent polynomial whose coefficients…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-31 Nathan M. Dunfield , Stefan Friedl , Nicholas Jackson

We prove a fix point theorem for monoids of self-embeddings of trees. As a corollary, we obtain a result by Laflamme, Pouzet and Sauer that a tree either contains a subdivided binary tree as a subtree or has a vertex, and edge, an end or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Matthias Hamann

This paper gives new and elementary combinatorial topological proofs of the classification of unoriented and oriented rational knots and links. These proofs are based on the known classification of alternating knots through flyping, and the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Louis H. Kauffman , Sofia Lambropoulou

The energy minimization problem associated to uniform, isotropic, linearly elastic rods leads to a geometric variational problem for the rod centerline, whose solutions include closed, knotted curves. We give a complete description of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas A. Ivey , David A. Singer

For a given singularity of a plane curve we consider the locus of nodal deformations of the singularity with the given number of nodes and describe possible components of the locus. As applications, we solve the local symplectic isotopy for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. Shevchishin

We study the relationship between fibered ribbon 1-knots and fibered ribbon 2-knots by studying fibered slice disks with handlebody fibers. We give a characterization of fibered homotopy-ribbon disks and give analogues of the Stallings…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Kyle Larson , Jeffrey Meier

Given a knot K in the 3-sphere, consider a singular disk bounded by K and the intersections of K with the interior of the disk. The absolute number of intersections, minimised over all choices of singular disk with a given algebraic number…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Michael T. Greene , Bert Wiest

Which slopes can or cannot appear as Seifert fibered slopes for hyperbolic knots in the 3-sphere S^3? It is conjectured that if r-surgery on a hyperbolic knot in S^3 yields a Seifert fiber space, then r is an integer. We show that for each…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Kimihiko Motegi , Hyun-Jong Song