arXiv research

Standard trisection diagrams found for a specific type of knot.

The paper examines trisection diagrams of spun knots and shows they are standard for certain cases.

Standard trisection diagrams found for Mazur type 4-manifolds.

Heegaard diagrams for 5-manifolds help in understanding their structure.

A correspondence is studied by H. Matsuda between front projections of Legendrian links in the standard contact structure for 3-space and rectangular diagrams. In this paper, we introduce braided rectangular diagrams, and study a relationship with Legendrian links in the standard contact structure for 3-space. We show …

New minimal link diagrams found, including torus links and homogeneous ones.

The paper introduces triple grid diagrams to construct Lagrangian surfaces in complex projective space.

Three hard diagrams of the unknot require extra crossings to simplify.

Paper simplifies proof of slide-equivalence in crown diagrams.

We determine the minimal number of colors for non-trivial $\mathbb{Z}$-colorings on the standard minimal diagrams of $\mathbb{Z}$-colorable torus links. Also included are complete classifications of such $\mathbb{Z}$-colorings and of such $\mathbb{Z}$-colorings by only four colors, which are shown by using rack colorin…

We establish a correspondence between trisections of smooth, compact, oriented $4$--manifolds with connected boundary and diagrams describing these trisected $4$--manifolds. Such a diagram comes in the form of a compact, oriented surface with boundary together with three tuples of simple closed curves, with possibly fe…

High-dimensional handlebodies are shown to be products of simpler shapes.

New link invariants from diagram colorings match link widths.

New formula for knot invariants simplifies calculations and counts.

Category theory generalizes finite type invariants using diagrams systems.

This is a simple mathematical introduction into Feynman diagram technique, which is a standard physical tool to write perturbative expansions of path integrals near a critical point of the action. I start from a rigorous treatment of a finite dimensional case (which actually belongs more to multivariable calculus than …

The singularity set of a generic standard projection to the three space of a closed surface linked in four space, consists of at most three types: double points, triple points or branch points. We say that this generic projection image is p-diagram if it does not contain any triple point. Two p-diagrams of equivalent s…

The paper explores non-trivial welded knots and ribbon torus-knots, proving their existence.

Constructs pseudo-isotopies with Cerf diagrams and Hatcher-Wagoner invariants for barbell maps.

Characterizes the OU matrix for up to 5 strands in braids.

New method constructs moduli spaces of Lagrangian surfaces in CP^2 from grid diagrams.

According to Giroux, contact manifolds can be described as open books whose pages are Stein manifolds. For 5-dimensional contact manifolds the pages are Stein surfaces, which permit a description via Kirby diagrams. We introduce handle moves on such diagrams that do not change the corresponding contact manifold. As an …

A method for vectorizing persistence diagrams simplifies topological data analysis.

New formulas derived for Jones polynomial of rational links.

Hexagonal diagrams link complex curves in $\mathbb{CP}^2$ to minimal genus surfaces.

New method constructs Seifert solids from bridge trisections.

Simplified plat diagrams for unlink without stabilization.

Grid diagrams encode useful geometric information about knots in S^3. In particular, they can be used to combinatorially define the knot Floer homology of a knot K in S^3, and they have a straightforward connection to Legendrian representatives of K in (S^3, ξ_\st), where ξ_\st is the standard, tight contact structure.…

Braids can be represented geometrically as curve diagrams. The geometric complexity of a braid is the minimal complexity of a curve diagram representing it. We introduce and study the corresponding notion of geometric generating function. We compute explicitly the geometric generating function for the group of braids o…

We introduce a simple combinatorial way, which we call a rectangular diagram of a surface, to represent a surface in the three-sphere. It has a particularly nice relation to the standard contact structure on $\mathbb S^3$ and to rectangular diagrams of links. By using rectangular diagrams of surfaces we are going, in p…

A new formula detects differences between counterexamples and standard embeddings of circles.

We construct, somewhat non-standard, Legendrian surgery diagrams for some Stein fillable contact structures on some plumbing trees of circle bundles over spheres. We then show how to put such a surgery diagram on the pages of an open book for $S^3,$ with relatively low genus. Thus we produce open books with low genus p…

KnotMosaics package simplifies knot theory computations in SageMath.

We take advantage of the correspondence between fibered links, open book decompositions and contact structures on a closed connected 3-dimensional manifold to determine a mixed link diagram presentation for a particular fibered link $L$ in the lens space $L(p,q)$. Moreover, we construct a diagram for the lift of $L$ in…

Let $β:=σ_1σ_2^{-1}$ be a braid in $B_3$, where $B_3$ is the braid group on 3 strings and $σ_1, σ_2$ are the standard Artin generators. We use Gauss diagram formulas to show that for each natural number $n$ not divisible by $3$ the knot which is represented by the closure of the braid $β^n$ is algebraically slice if an…

We present a braid-theoretic approach to combinatorially computing knot Floer homology. To a knot or link K, which is braided about the standard disk open book decomposition for (S^3,ξ_std), we associate a corresponding multi-pointed nice Heegaard diagram. We then describe an explicit algorithm for computing the associ…

We construct new knot polynomials. Let $V$ be the standard solid torus in 3-space and let $pr$ be its standard projection onto an annulus. Let $M$ be the space of all smooth oriented knots in $V$ such that the restriction of $pr$ is an immersion (e.g. regular diagrams of a classical knot in the complement of its meridi…

New contact Kirby moves complete the set for contact surgery diagrams.

Standard position for surfaces extended to weakly generalized alternating links.

Understanding the asymptotic behavior of wide networks is of considerable interest. In this work, we present a general method for analyzing this large width behavior. The method is an adaptation of Feynman diagrams, a standard tool for computing multivariate Gaussian integrals. We apply our method to study training dyn…

We apply knot Floer homology to exhibit an infinite family of transversely nonsimple prime knots starting with $10_{132}$. We also discuss the combinatorial relationship between grid diagrams, braids, and Legendrian and transverse knots in standard contact $\mathbb{R}^3$.

Persistence diagrams from random matrices follow RMT universality, offering a new spectral diagnostic.

The twisted face-pairing construction of our earlier papers gives an efficient way of generating, mechanically and with little effort, myriads of relatively simple face-pairing descriptions of interesting closed 3-manifolds. The corresponding description in terms of surgery, or Dehn-filling, reveals the twist construct…

A knot is an an embedding of a circle into three-dimensional space. We say that a knot is unknotted if there is an ambient isotopy of the embedding to a standard circle. By representing knots via planar diagrams, we discuss the problem of unknotting a knot diagram when we know that it is unknotted. This problem is surp…

To each ribbon graph we assign a so-called L-space, which is a Lagrangian subspace in an even-dimensional vector space with the standard symplectic form. This invariant generalizes the notion of the intersection matrix of a chord diagram. Moreover, the actions of Morse perestroikas (or taking a partial dual) and Vassil…

We inductively define layers of colorings of knot and knotted surface diagrams using ternary quasigroups. Homological invariants from such systems of colorings use shorter differentials and of higher degree than the standard homology differentials, and give access to typically more complex homology groups.

Study Weinstein structures on toric divisors' complements.

We relate some terms on the boundary of the Newton polygon of the Alexander polynomial $Δ(x,y)$ of a rational link to the number and length of monochromatic twist sites in a particular diagram that we call the standard form. Normalize $Δ(x,y)$ so that no $x^{-1}$ or $y^{-1}$ terms appear, but $x^{-1}Δ(x,y)$ and $y^{-1}…