scholarly journals A Fox–Milnor theorem for knots in a thickened surface

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 1950073
Author(s):  
James Kreinbihl
Keyword(s):  
Knot Theory ◽  
Orientable Surface ◽  
Bijective Correspondence ◽  
Alexander Polynomials ◽  
Famous Result ◽  
Smooth Embedding ◽  
Thickened Surface

A knot in a thickened surface [Formula: see text] is a smooth embedding [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a closed, connected, orientable surface. There is a bijective correspondence between knots in [Formula: see text] and knots in [Formula: see text], so one can view the study of knots in thickened surfaces as an extension of classical knot theory. An immediate question is if other classical definitions, concepts, and results extend or generalize to the study of knots in a thickened surface. One such famous result is the Fox–Milnor Theorem, which relates the Alexander polynomials of concordant knots. We prove a Fox–Milnor Theorem for concordant knots in a thickened surface by using Milnor torsion.

scholarly journals CROWELL'S DERIVED GROUP AND TWISTED POLYNOMIALS

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (08) ◽  
pp. 1079-1094 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL S. SILVER ◽  
SUSAN G. WILLIAMS
Keyword(s):  
Knot Theory ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Permutation Representation ◽  
Virtual Knot ◽  
Alexander Polynomials ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
New Applications ◽  
Extended Group

The derived group of a permutation representation, introduced by Crowell, unites many notions of knot theory. We survey Crowell's construction, and offer new applications. The twisted Alexander group of a knot is defined. Using it, we obtain twisted Alexander polynomials. Also, we extend a well-known theorem of Neuwirth and Stallings giving necessary and sufficient conditions for a knot to be fibered. Virtual Alexander polynomials provide obstructions for a virtual knot that must vanish if the knot has a diagram with an Alexander numbering. The extended group of a virtual knot is defined, and using it a more sensitive obstruction is obtained.

scholarly journals A twisted link invariant derived from a virtual link invariant

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (09) ◽  
pp. 1743007
Author(s):  
Naoko Kamada
Keyword(s):  
Knot Theory ◽  
Orientable Surface ◽  
Link Diagram ◽  
Link Invariant ◽  
Virtual Knot ◽  
Chord Diagrams ◽  
Link Diagrams ◽  
Virtual Links ◽  
Virtual Knot Theory ◽  
Double Coverings

Virtual knot theory is a generalization of knot theory which is based on Gauss chord diagrams and link diagrams on closed oriented surfaces. A twisted knot is a generalization of a virtual knot, which corresponds to a link diagram on a possibly non-orientable surface. In this paper, we discuss an invariant of twisted links which is obtained from the JKSS invariant of virtual links by use of double coverings. We also discuss some properties of double covering diagrams.

scholarly journals Twisted Alexander polynomials with the adjoint action for some classes of knots

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1450051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anh T. Tran
Keyword(s):  
Knot Theory ◽  
Adjoint Action ◽  
Alexander Polynomial ◽  
Reidemeister Torsion ◽  
Torus Knots ◽  
Alexander Polynomials ◽  
Fibered Knots ◽  
Twisted Alexander Polynomial ◽  
The One ◽  
Better Than

We calculate the twisted Alexander polynomial with the adjoint action for torus knots and twist knots. As consequences of these calculations, we obtain the formula for the nonabelian Reidemeister torsion of torus knots in [J. Dubois, Nonabelian twisted Reidemeister torsion for fibered knots, Canad. Math. Bull.49(1) (2006) 55–71] and a formula for the nonabelian Reidemeister torsion of twist knots that is better than the one in [J. Dubois, V. Huynh and Y. Yamaguchi, Nonabelian Reidemeister torsion for twist knots, J. Knot Theory Ramifications18(3) (2009) 303–341].

scholarly journals Virtual Seifert surfaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (06) ◽  
pp. 1950039
Author(s):  
Micah Chrisman
Keyword(s):  
Seifert Surface ◽  
Virtual Knot ◽  
Alexander Polynomials ◽  
Seifert Surfaces ◽  
Gauss Diagram ◽  
Thickened Surface

A virtual knot that has a homologically trivial representative [Formula: see text] in a thickened surface [Formula: see text] is said to be an almost classical (AC) knot. [Formula: see text] then bounds a Seifert surface [Formula: see text]. Seifert surfaces of AC knots are useful for computing concordance invariants and slice obstructions. However, Seifert surfaces in [Formula: see text] are difficult to construct. Here, we introduce virtual Seifert surfaces of AC knots. These are planar figures representing [Formula: see text]. An algorithm for constructing a virtual Seifert surface from a Gauss diagram is given. This is applied to computing signatures and Alexander polynomials of AC knots. A canonical genus of AC knots is also studied. It is shown to be distinct from the virtual canonical genus of Stoimenow–Tchernov–Vdovina.

scholarly journals Equivalence of Edge Bicolored Graphs on Surfaces

10.37236/7384 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver T. Dasbach ◽  
Heather M. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Knot Theory ◽  
Orientable Surface ◽  
Equivalence Classes ◽  
Graphs On Surfaces

Consider the collection of edge bicolorings of a graph that are cellularly embedded on an orientable surface. In this work, we count the number of equivalence classes of such colorings under two relations: reversing colors around a face and reversing colors around a vertex. In the case of the plane, this is well studied, but for other surfaces, the computation is more subtle. While this question can be stated purely graph theoretically, it has interesting applications in knot theory.

Adjoint twisted Alexander polynomial of twisted Whitehead links

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850026
Author(s):  
Hoang-An Nguyen ◽  
Anh T. Tran
Keyword(s):  
Knot Theory ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Adjoint Action ◽  
Alexander Polynomial ◽  
Reidemeister Torsion ◽  
Alexander Polynomials ◽  
Whitehead Link ◽  
Twisted Alexander Polynomial ◽  
Genus One

The adjoint twisted Alexander polynomial has been computed for twist knots [A. Tran, Twisted Alexander polynomials with the adjoint action for some classes of knots, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 23(10) (2014) 1450051], genus one two-bridge knots [A. Tran, Adjoint twisted Alexander polynomials of genus one two-bridge knots, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 25(10) (2016) 1650065] and the Whitehead link [J. Dubois and Y. Yamaguchi, Twisted Alexander invariant and nonabelian Reidemeister torsion for hyperbolic three dimensional manifolds with cusps, Preprint (2009), arXiv:0906.1500 ]. In this paper, we compute the adjoint twisted Alexander polynomial and nonabelian Reidemeister torsion of twisted Whitehead links.

Internal categoricity and truth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Button ◽  
Sean Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Model Theory ◽  
Lower Order ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Mathematical Truth ◽  
Object Language ◽  
Famous Result ◽  
Famous Paper ◽  
Truth Value ◽  
Truth Operator

This chapter considers whether internal categoricity can be used to leverage any claims about mathematical truth. We begin by noting that internal categoricity allows us to introduce a truth-operator which gives an object-language expression to the supervaluationist semantics. In this way, the univocity discussed in previous chapters might seem to secure an object-language expression of determinacy of truth-value; but this hope falls short, because such truth-operators must be carefully distinguished from truth-predicates. To introduce these truth-predicates, we outline an internalist attitude towards model theory itself. We then use this to illuminate the cryptic conclusions of Putnam's justly-famous paper ‘Models and Reality’. We close this chapter by presenting Tarski’s famous result that truth for lower-order languages can be defined in higher-order languages.

scholarly journals Profinite rigidity for twisted Alexander polynomials

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Ueki
Keyword(s):  
Rigidity Theorem ◽  
Homology Groups ◽  
Alexander Polynomials ◽  
Twisted Homology ◽  
Hyperbolic Volumes

AbstractWe formulate and prove a profinite rigidity theorem for the twisted Alexander polynomials up to several types of finite ambiguity. We also establish torsion growth formulas of the twisted homology groups in a {{\mathbb{Z}}}-cover of a 3-manifold with use of Mahler measures. We examine several examples associated to Riley’s parabolic representations of two-bridge knot groups and give a remark on hyperbolic volumes.

scholarly journals Decomposition and classification of length functions

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 1109-1129
Author(s):  
Dario Spirito
Keyword(s):  
Integral Domain ◽  
Integral Domains ◽  
Bijective Correspondence ◽  
Length Functions ◽  
Standard Representation ◽  
Prufer Domains ◽  
Prüfer Domains

AbstractWe study decompositions of length functions on integral domains as sums of length functions constructed from overrings. We find a standard representation when the integral domain admits a Jaffard family, when it is Noetherian and when it is a Prüfer domains such that every ideal has only finitely many minimal primes. We also show that there is a natural bijective correspondence between singular length functions and localizing systems.

QFT and unification of knot theories

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (24) ◽  
pp. 1430025
Author(s):  
Alexey Sleptsov
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Knot Theory ◽  
Topological Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Knot Invariants ◽  
Topological Quantum

We discuss relation between knot theory and topological quantum field theory. Also it is considered a theory of superpolynomial invariants of knots which generalizes all other known theories of knot invariants. We discuss a possible generalization of topological quantum field theory with the help of superpolynomial invariants.

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