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A conjecture on Khovanov's invariants

Stavros Garoufalidis (2004)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We formulate a conjectural formula for Khovanov's invariants of alternating knots in terms of the Jones polynomial and the signature of the knot.

Vassiliev invariants as polynomials

Simon Willerton (1998)

Banach Center Publications

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Three results are shown which demonstrate how Vassiliev invariants behave like polynomials.

Virtual biquandles

Louis H. Kauffman, Vassily O. Manturov (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We describe new approaches for constructing virtual knot invariants. The main background of this paper comes from formulating and bringing together the ideas of biquandle [KR], [FJK], the virtual quandle [Ma2], the ideas of quaternion biquandles by Roger Fenn and Andrew Bartholomew [BF], the concepts and properties of long virtual knots [Ma10], and other ideas in the interface between classical and virtual knot theory. In the present paper we present a new algebraic construction of virtual...

Link invariants from finite biracks

Sam Nelson (2014)

Banach Center Publications

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A birack is an algebraic structure with axioms encoding the blackboard-framed Reidemeister moves, incorporating quandles, racks, strong biquandles and semiquandles as special cases. In this paper we extend the counting invariant for finite racks to the case of finite biracks. We introduce a family of biracks generalizing Alexander quandles, (t,s)-racks, Alexander biquandles and Silver-Williams switches, known as (τ,σ,ρ)-biracks. We consider enhancements of the counting invariant using...

Flat hierarchy

Vassily O. Manturov (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We consider the hierarchy flats, a combinatorial generalization of flat virtual links proposed by Louis Kauffman. An approach to constructing invariants for hierarchy flats is presented; several examples are given.

Link invariants from finite racks

Sam Nelson (2014)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We define ambient isotopy invariants of oriented knots and links using the counting invariants of framed links defined by finite racks. These invariants reduce to the usual quandle counting invariant when the rack in question is a quandle. We are able to further enhance these counting invariants with 2-cocycles from the coloring rack's second rack cohomology satisfying a new degeneracy condition which reduces to the usual case for quandles.

Homfly polynomials as vassiliev link invariants

Taizo Kanenobu, Yasuyuki Miyazawa (1998)

Banach Center Publications

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We prove that the number of linearly independent Vassiliev invariants for an r-component link of order n, which derived from the HOMFLY polynomial, is greater than or equal to min{n,[(n+r-1)/2]}.