A diagrammatic language for 3D manifolds with boundary.
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In this survey paper we present the --moves between braids and how they can adapt and serve for establishing and proving braid equivalence theorems for various diagrammatic settings, such as for classical knots, for knots in knot complements, in c.c.o. 3--manifolds and in handlebodies, as well as for virtual knots, …
The paper simplifies knot and link diagrams with triple-crossings.
New moves for singular knots identified and described.
New contact Kirby moves complete the set for contact surgery diagrams.
Using the diagrammatic calculus for Soergel bimodules developed by B. Elias and M. Khovanov, we show that Rouquier complexes are functorial over braid cobordisms. We explicitly describe the chain maps which correspond to movie move generators.
We give a presentation for a non-split compact surface embedded in the 3-sphere by using diagrams of spatial trivalent graphs equipped with signs and we define Reidemeister moves for such signed diagrams. We show that two diagrams of embedded surfaces are related by Reidemeister moves if and only if the surfaces repres…
In this paper a classification of Reidemeister moves, which is the most refined, is introduced. In particular, this classification distinguishes some -moves that only differ in how the three strands that are involved in the move are ordered on the knot. To transform knot diagrams of isotopic knots into each other …
Every link in the 3-sphere has a projection to the plane where the only singularities are pairwise transverse triple points. The associated diagram, with height information at each triple point, is a triple-crossing diagram of the link. We give a set of diagrammatic moves on triple-crossing diagrams analogous to the Re…
Paper simplifies proof of slide-equivalence in crown diagrams.
New diagrams classify triply periodic entanglements.
Crane and Frenkel proposed a state sum invariant for triangulated 4-manifolds.They defined and used new algebraic structures called Hopf categories for their construction. Crane and Yetter studied Hopf categories and gave some examples using group cocycles that are associated to the Drinfeld double of a finite group. I…
Study Alexander polynomials of links in 3-torus.
The paper computes the Kauffman bracket skein module of via braids.
We consider ribbon n-knots for n\geq 2. For such knots we define a set of moves on ribbon disks, and show that any two ribbon disks for isotopic knots are related by a finite sequence of such moves and ambient isotopies. Using this we are able to prove that there is a natural geometric correspondence between ribbon n-k…
The paper explores extensions of local moves on string links and their relation to ribbon surfaces.
Uniform convergence of isotopies implies ambient isotopy, aiding knot equivalence.
When the signed weighted resolution set was defined as an invariant of pseudoknots, it was unknown whether this invariant was complete. Using the Gauss-diagrammatic invariants of pseudoknots introduced by Dorais et al, we show that the signed were-set cannot distinguish all non-equivalent pseudoknots. This goal is achi…
We introduce the notion of directed diagrammatic reducibility which is a relative version of diagrammatic reducibility. Directed diagrammatic reducibility has strong group theoretic and topological consequences. A multi-relator version of the Freiheitssatz in the presence of directed diagrammatic reducibility is given.…
Study surfaces in 4-manifolds using banded unlink diagrams.
The paper shows how reducible complexes affect local indicability.
Diagrammatic method calculates knot invariant related to Chern-Simons theory.
Rewriting theory applied to diagrammatic algebras for categorification.
Pseudodiagrams are knot or link diagrams where some of the crossing information is missing. Pseudoknots are equivalence classes of pseudodiagrams, where equivalence is generated by a natural set of Reidemeister moves. In this paper, we introduce a Gauss-diagrammatic theory for pseudoknots which gives rise to the notion…
This paper uses sheaf theory to model virtual knots geometrically.
New theory classifies knotted spheres in 4D space.
Survey of various non-classical knot theories from geometric and algebraic perspectives.
Revives Vogel's diagrammatic technique for universal Lie algebra computations.
This is an expository article on diagrammatic representations of knots and links in various settings via braids.
In this paper we study some aspects of knots and links in lens spaces. Namely, if we consider lens spaces as quotient of the unit ball with suitable identification of boundary points, then we can project the links on the equatorial disk of , obtaining a regular diagram for them. In this contest, we obtai…
A virtual string can be defined as an equivalence class of planar diagrams under certain kinds of diagrammatic moves. Virtual strings are related to virtual knots in that a simple operation on a virtual knot diagram produces a diagram for a virtual string. In this paper we consider three operations on a virtual string …
Fixed point sets of certain group actions are contractible.
Diagrammatic method calculates knot invariant from tangle decompositions.
We give a diagrammatic definition of when is not a root of unity, including its Hopf algebra structure and its relationship with the Temperley-Lieb category.
We define two functors from Elias and Khovanov's diagrammatic Soergel category, one targeting Clark-Morrison-Walker's category of disoriented sl(2) cobordisms and the other the category of (universal) sl(3) foams.
The article improves the display of acceptable exchange ratios for merging companies.
This paper applies knot theory to modern yo-yo play.
We define and compare several natural ways to compute the bridge number of a knot diagram. We study bridge numbers of crossing number minimizing diagrams, as well as the behavior of diagrammatic bridge numbers under the connected sum operation. For each notion of diagrammatic bridge number considered, we find crossing …
Diagrammatic calculus proves Alexander polynomial formulas.
The random matrix theory method of planar Gaussian diagrammatic expansion is applied to find the mean spectral density of the Hermitian equal-time and non-Hermitian time-lagged cross-covariance estimators, firstly in the form of master equations for the most general multivariate Gaussian system, secondly for seven part…
We present a new test for studying asphericity and diagrammatic reducibility of group presentations. Our test can be applied to prove diagrammatic reducibility in cases where the classical weight test fails. We use this criterion to generalize results of J. Howie and S.M. Gersten on asphericity of LOTs and of Adian pre…
We provide a diagrammatic computation for the bilinear form, which is defined as the pairing between the (relative) cup products with every local coefficients and every integral homology 2-class of every links in the 3-sphere. As a corollary, we construct bilinear forms on the twisted Alexander modules of links.
The Ptolemy groupoid is a combinatorial groupoid generated by elementary moves on marked trivalent fatgraphs with three types of relations. Through the fatgraph decomposition of Teichmüller space, the Ptolemy groupoid is a mapping class group equivariant subgroupoid of the fundamental path groupoid of Teichmüller space…
Diagrammatic proof of twist theorem for 4-manifolds.
Develops a diagrammatic method for symplectic filling classifications.
New method for simplifying complex 4D shapes with boundaries.
New diagrammatic approach connects knot Floer homology with quantum group representations.
New pseudometrics defined on knot spaces based on curve thickness and length.