Patterns in knot cohomology. I.
Periodic knots and the skein polynomial.
Periodicity of Branched Cyclic Covers.
Planar surfaces in three-manifolds.
Planar trees, slalom curves and hyperbolic knots
Plane curve singularities and carousels
In this paper we give a direct and explicit description of the local topological embedding of a plane curve singularity using the Puiseux expansions of its branches in a given set of coordinates.
Polynomial Invariants and the Integral Homology of Coverings of Knots and Links.
Polynomial invariants of 2-component links.
Let L = X U Y be an oriented 2-component link in S3. In this paper we will define two different types of polynomials which are ambient isotopic invariants of L. One is associated with a cyclic cover branched along one of their components, an the other is associated with a metabelian cover of L. This invariants are defined for any link unless the linking number lk(X,Y), is ±1.
Polynomial invariants of boundary links
Polynomials of Amphicheiral Knots.
Polynomials of Invertibel Knots.
Positive knots, closed braids and the Jones polynomial
Using the recent Gauß diagram formulas for Vassiliev invariants of Polyak-Viro-Fiedler and combining these formulas with the Bennequin inequality, we prove several inequalities for positive knots relating their Vassiliev invariants, genus and degrees of the Jones polynomial. As a consequence, we prove that for any of the polynomials of Alexander/Conway, Jones, HOMFLY, Brandt-Lickorish-Millett-Ho and Kauffman there are only finitely many positive knots with the same polynomial and no positive knot...
Presentations of surface braid groups by graphs
We extend and generalise Sergiescu's results on planar graphs and presentations for the braid group Bₙ to other topological generalisations of Bₙ.
Primitive spatial graphs and graph minors.
Principal congruence link complements
In this paper we study principal congruence link complements in . It is known that there are only finitely many such link complements, and we make a start on enumerating them using a combination of theoretical methods and computer calculations with MAGMA.
Pure virtual braids homotopic to the identity braid
Two virtual link diagrams are homotopic if one may be transformed into the other by a sequence of virtual Reidemeister moves, classical Reidemeister moves, and self crossing changes. We recall the pure virtual braid group. We then describe the set of pure virtual braids that are homotopic to the identity braid.
Quadrisecants give new lower bounds for the ropelength of a knot.
Quandle coverings and their Galois correspondence
This article establishes the algebraic covering theory of quandles. For every connected quandle Q with base point q ∈ Q, we explicitly construct a universal covering p: (Q̃,q̃̃) → (Q,q). This in turn leads us to define the algebraic fundamental group , where Adj(Q) is the adjoint group of Q. We then establish the Galois correspondence between connected coverings of (Q,q) and subgroups of π₁(Q,q). Quandle coverings are thus formally analogous to coverings of topological spaces, and resemble Kervaire’s...
Quantum invariants of links and 3-valent graphs in 3-manifolds
Quantum mechanics and nonabelian theta functions for the gauge group SU(2)
We propose a direction of study of nonabelian theta functions by establishing an analogy between the Weyl quantization of a one-dimensional particle and the metaplectic representation on the one hand, and the quantization of the moduli space of flat connections on a surface and the representation of the mapping class group on the space of nonabelian theta functions on the other. We exemplify this with the cases of classical theta functions and of the nonabelian theta functions for the gauge group...