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Jones polynomials have infinitely many roots of unity as zeros.

Paper proves zero stability for one-row colored sl₃-Jones polynomials.

In this paper, we study distribution of the zeros of the Alexander polynomials of knots and links in S^3. We call a knot or link "real stable" (resp. "circular stable") if all the zeros of its Alexander polynomial are real (resp. unit complex). We give a general construction of real stable and circular stable knots and…

Alexander polynomial degree correlates with knot defect, proving conjecture for defect zero.

Jones polynomials for knots and links with many crossings calculated efficiently.

We show that the zeroes of the Alexander polynomial of a Lorenz knot all lie in some annulus whose width depends explicitly on the genus and the braid index of the considered knot.

We prove that for any zero α of the Alexander polynomial of a two-bridge knot, -3 < Re(α) < 6. Furthermore, for a large class of two-bridge knots we prove -1<Re(α).

No regular algebraic hypersurfaces with non-zero constant mean curvature in Euclidean spaces are found.

Study of Alexander polynomials of torus knots and links, showing zeros equidistribute on unit circle.

In this work we describe a new invariant of virtual knots. We show that this transcendental function invariant generalizes several polynomial invariants of virtual knots, such as the writhe polynomial, the affine index polynomial and the zero polynomial.

This article contains general formulas for Tutte and Jones polynomials for families of knots and links given in Conway notation and "portraits of families"-- plots of zeroes of their corresponding Jones polynomials.

Ozsváth-Szabó proved the property that any coefficient of Alexander polynomial of lens space knot is either $\pm1$ or $0$ and the non-zero coefficients are alternating. Combining the formulas of the Alexander polynomial of lens space knots due to Kadokami-Yamada and Ichihara-Saito-Teragaito, we refine Ozsváth-Szabó's p…

Defines a new knot invariant and studies its properties.

We generalize a theorem of Burde and de Rham characterizing the zeros of the Alexander polynomial. Given a representation of a knot group $π$, we define an extension of $π$, the Crowell group. For any GL(n,C) representation of $π$, the zeros of the associated twisted Alexander polynomial correspond to representations o…

Origami structures are enumerated and shown to be quantum modular.

Paper corrects a proof about biharmonic hypersurfaces with three distinct curvatures.

Study on Jones polynomials and their roots in the unit circle and complex plane.

We express the coefficients of the Hirzebruch L-polynomials in terms of certain alternating multiple zeta values. In particular, we show that every monomial in the Pontryagin classes appears with a non-zero coefficient, with the expected sign. Similar results hold for the polynomials associated to the A-hat genus.

Polynomial decay of correlations shown for curved surfaces.

This paper gives a polynomial invariant for flat virtual links. In the case of one component, the polynomial specializes to Turaev's virtual string polynomial. We show that Turaev's polynomial has the property that it is non-zero precisely when there is no filamentation of the knot, as described by Hrencecin and Kauffm…

Paper discusses groups where twisted Alexander polynomials vanish.

We present formulae for computing the Yamada polynomial of spatial graphs obtained by replacing edges of plane graphs, such as cycle-graphs, theta-graphs, and bouquet-graphs, by spatial parts. As a corollary, it is shown that zeros of Yamada polynomials of some series of spatial graphs are dense in a certain region in …

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the colored Jones polynomials evaluated at roots of unity for a special class of knots. We show that certain limit is zero as predicted by the volume conjecture.

We provide necessary conditions for the Alexander polynomials of algebraically split component-preservingly amphicheiral links. We raise a conjecture that the Alexander polynomial of an algebraically split component-preservingly amphicheiral link with even components is zero. Our necessary conditions and some examples …

The vanishing ideal is a set of polynomials that takes zero value on the given data points. Originally proposed in computer algebra, the vanishing ideal has been recently exploited for extracting the nonlinear structures of data in many applications. To avoid overfitting to noisy data, the polynomials are often designe…

We prove an explicit cabling formula for the colored Jones polynomial. As an application we prove the volume conjecture for all zero volume knots and links, i.e. all knots and links that are obtained from the unknot by repeated cabling and connected sum.

Associated with each oriented link is the two variable Homflypt polynomial. The Morton-Franks-Williams (MFW) inequality gives rise to an expression for the Homflypt polynomial with MFW coefficient polynomials. These MFW coefficient polynomials are labelled in a braid-dependent manner and may be zero, but display a numb…

Third coefficient of lens space knots' Alexander polynomials restricts surgeries to specific torus knots.

Let $M_n$ be a homology 3-sphere obtained by $\frac1n$-Dehn surgery along a $(p,q)$-torus knot. We consider a polynomial $σ_{(p,q,n)}(t)$ whose zeros are the inverses of the Reideimeister torsion of $M_n$ for $\mathit{SL}(2;\mathbb{C})$-irreducible representations. We give an explicit formula of this polynomial by usin…

Study on spatial graphs and their constituent knots, linking polynomial invariants.

We will prove that \emph{there are no stable complete hypersurfaces of $\mathbb{R}^4$ with zero scalar curvature, polynomial volume growth and such that $\dfrac{(-K)}{H^3}\geq c>0$ everywhere, for some constant $c>0$}, where $K$ denotes the Gauss-Kronecker curvature and $H$ denotes the mean curvature of the immersion. …

New proof of Alexander polynomial constraints for lens space surgeries.

We present a new family of zero-field Ising models over $N$ binary variables/spins obtained by consecutive "gluing" of planar and $O(1)$-sized components and subsets of at most three vertices into a tree. The polynomial-time algorithm of the dynamic programming type for solving exact inference (computing partition func…

The paper equidistributes zeros of random polynomials and sections on manifolds.

We prove a linear in $\degω$ upper bound on the number of real zeros of the Abelian integral $I(t)=\int_{δ(t)}ω$, where $δ(t)\subset\R^2$ is the real oval $x^2y(1-x-y)=t$ and $ω$ is a one-form with polynomial coefficients.

We prove the discrete analogue of Kakeya conjecture over $\mathbb{R}^n$. This result suggests that a (hypothetically) low dimensional Kakeya set cannot be constructed directly from discrete configurations. We also prove a generalization which completely solves the discrete analogue of the Furstenberg set problem in all…

In this article, we explore a class of tractable interest rate models that have the property that the price of a zero-coupon bond can be expressed as a polynomial of a state diffusion process. Our results include a classification of all such time-homogeneous single-factor models in the spirit of Filipovic's maximal deg…

We determine the expected curvature polynomial of random real projective varieties given as the zero set of independent random polynomials with Gaussian distribution, whose distribution is invariant under the action of the orthogonal group. In particular, the expected Euler characteristic of such random real projective…

In this paper we prove some results concerning stability of hypersurfaces in the four dimensional Euclidean space with zero scalar curvature. First we prove there is no complete stable hypersurface with zero scalar curvature, polynomial growth of integral of the mean curvature, and with the Gauss-Kronecker curvature bo…

We call an Ising model tractable when it is possible to compute its partition function value (statistical inference) in polynomial time. The tractability also implies an ability to sample configurations of this model in polynomial time. The notion of tractability extends the basic case of planar zero-field Ising models…

We consider regular surfaces $M$ that are given as the zeros of a polynomial function $p:R^3\rightarrow R$, where the gradient of $p$ vanishes nowhere. We assume that $M$ has non-zero mean curvature and prove that there exist only two examples of such surfaces, namely the sphere and the circular cylinder.

Simpler equations derived for knot polynomials coefficients, forming a ring.

We study the uniqueness of a vortex equation involving an entire function on the complex plane. As geometric applications, we show that there is a unique harmonic map $u:\mathbb{C}\rightarrow \mathbb{H}^2$ satisfying $\partial u\neq 0$ with prescribed polynomial Hopf differential; there is a unique affine spherical imm…

Study eight categorifications of colored Jones polynomial, verifying physics conjectures.

We establish a quadratic identity for the Yamada polynomial of ribbon cubic graphs in 3-space, extending the Tutte golden identity for planar cubic graphs. An application is given to the structure of the flow polynomial of cubic graphs at zero. The golden identity for the flow polynomial is conjectured to characterize …

We describe an algorithm that for every given braid $B$ explicitly constructs a function $f:\mathbb{C}^{2}\rightarrow\mathbb{C}$ such that $f$ is a polynomial in $u$, $v$ and $\overline{v}$ and the zero level set of $f$ on the unit three-sphere is the closure of $B$. The nature of this construction allows us to prove c…

Polynomial time algorithm learns depth-2 neural networks with ReLU activations.

A long-standing open problem is to determine for which values of n the Burau representation Psi_n of the braid group B_n is faithful. Following work of Moody, Long-Paton, and Bigelow, the remaining open case is n = 4. One criterion states that Psi_n is unfaithful if and only if there exists a pair of arcs in the n-punc…