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K ( π , 1 ) conjecture for Artin groups

Luis Paris (2014)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

The purpose of this paper is to put together a large amount of results on the K ( π , 1 ) conjecture for Artin groups, and to make them accessible to non-experts. Firstly, this is a survey, containing basic definitions, the main results, examples and an historical overview of the subject. But, it is also a reference text on the topic that contains proofs of a large part of the results on this question. Some proofs as well as few results are new. Furthermore, the text, being addressed to non-experts, is as...

Khovanov homology, its definitions and ramifications

Oleg Viro (2004)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

Mikhail Khovanov defined, for a diagram of an oriented classical link, a collection of groups labelled by pairs of integers. These groups were constructed as the homology groups of certain chain complexes. The Euler characteristics of these complexes are the coefficients of the Jones polynomial of the link. The original construction is overloaded with algebraic details. Most of the specialists use adaptations of it stripped off the details. The goal of this paper is to overview these adaptations...

Khovanov-Rozansky homology for embedded graphs

Emmanuel Wagner (2011)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

For any positive integer n, Khovanov and Rozansky constructed a bigraded link homology from which you can recover the 𝔰𝔩ₙ link polynomial invariants. We generalize the Khovanov-Rozansky construction in the case of finite 4-valent graphs embedded in a ball B³ ⊂ ℝ³. More precisely, we prove that the homology associated to a diagram of a 4-valent graph embedded in B³ ⊂ ℝ³ is invariant under the graph moves introduced by Kauffman.

Knot manifolds with isomorphic spines

Alberto Cavicchioli, Friedrich Hegenbarth (1994)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We study the relation between the concept of spine and the representation of orientable bordered 3-manifolds by Heegaard diagrams. As a consequence, we show that composing invertible non-amphicheiral knots yields examples of topologically different knot manifolds with isomorphic spines. These results are related to some questions listed in [9], [11] and recover the main theorem of [10] as a corollary. Finally, an application concerning knot manifolds of composite knots with h prime factors completes...

Knot theory with the Lorentz group

João Faria Martins (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We analyse perturbative expansions of the invariants defined from unitary representations of the Quantum Lorentz Group in two different ways, namely using the Kontsevich Integral and weight systems, and the R-matrix in the Quantum Lorentz Group defined by Buffenoir and Roche. The two formulations are proved to be equivalent; and they both yield ℂ[[h]]h-valued knot invariants related with the Melvin-Morton expansion of the Coloured Jones Polynomial.

Knots in S 2 x S 1 derived from Sym(2, ℝ)

Sang Lee, Yongdo Lim, Chan-Young Park (2000)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We realize closed geodesics on the real conformal compactification of the space V = Sym(2, ℝ) of all 2 × 2 real symmetric matrices as knots or 2-component links in S 2 × S 1 and show that these knots or links have certain types of symmetry of period 2.

Knots of (canonical) genus two

A. Stoimenow (2008)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We give a description of all knot diagrams of canonical genus 2 and 3, and give applications to positive, alternating and homogeneous knots, including a classification of achiral genus 2 alternating knots, slice or achiral 2-almost positive knots, a proof of the 3- and 4-move conjectures, and the calculation of the maximal hyperbolic volume for canonical (weak) genus 2 knots. We also study the values of the link polynomials at roots of unity, extending denseness results of Jones. Using these values,...

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