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The preceding paper constructed tangle machines as diagrammatic models, and illustrated their utility with a number of examples. The information content of a tangle machine is contained in characteristic quantities associated to equivalence classes of tangle machines, which are called invariants. This paper constructs …
Tangle machines are topologically inspired diagrammatic models. Their novel feature is their natural notion of equivalence. Equivalent tangle machines may differ locally, but globally they are considered to share the same information content. The goal of tangle machine equivalence is to provide a context-independent me…
This paper gives two new combinatorial topological proofs of the classification of rational tangles. Each proof rests on an elegant lemma showing that rational tangles are isotopic to canonical alternating rational tangles. The first proof defines the tangle fraction from the canonical form and uses flyping to prove in…
We show that for a tangle T with −∂0T≅∂1T the Hochschild homology of the tangle Floer homology CT(T) is equivalent to the link Floer homology of the closure T′=T/(−∂0T∼∂1T) of the tangle, linked with the tangle axis. In addition, we show that t…
Decomposes prime alternating links into prime tangles.
problem Understanding how to decompose prime alternating links into prime tangles.
method Refined results from Menasco and Thistlethwaite, focusing on alternating property and pseudo-Montesinos links.
result If a prime alternating link can be decomposed into two prime tangles, it must be visible in an alternating link diagram or the link is pseudo-Montesinos.
In this paper, We introduce an invariant of rational n-tangles which is obtained from the Kauffman bracket. It forms a vector with Laurent polynomial entries. We prove that the invariant classifies the rational 2-tangles and the reduced alternating rational 3-tangles. We conjecture that it classifies the rational 3-tan…
The paper addresses the k-tangle enumeration problem. We introduce a notion of cascade diagram for k-tangle projections. An effective enumeration algorithm for projections is proposed based on cascade representation. Tangles projections with up to 12 crossings are tabulated. We provide also pictures of alternating …
We note that a rational 3-tangle diagram is obtained from a combination of four generators. There is an algorithm to distinguish two rational 3-tangle diagrams up to isotopy. However, there is no perfect classification about rational 3-tangle diagrams such as the classification of rational 2-tangle diagrams cor…
A tangle is an oriented 1-submanifold of the cylinder whose endpoints lie on the two disks in the boundary of the cylinder. Using an algebraic tool developed by Lescop, we extend the Burau representation of braids to a functor from the category of oriented tangles to the category of Z[t,t^{-1}]-modules. For (1,1)-tangl…
We generalize our previous work on categorification of Kauffman bracket skein module of surfaces, by extending our homology to tangles in cylinders over surfaces, F x [0,1]. Our homology of 0-tangles and 1-tangles in D^3 coincides (up to normalization) with Khovanov link homology and the reduced Khovanov link homology.…
To study embeddings of tangles in knots, we use quandle cocycle invariants. Computations are carried out for the tables of knots and tangles, to investigate which tangles may or may not embed in knots in the tables.