Voltage graphs, weight systems and odd symmetry (Q5959109): Difference between revisions

A knot in the three-sphere \(S^{3}\) is called invertible if there exists an orientation preserving homeomorphism of \(S^{3}\) which takes the knot to itself with reverse orientation. It is an interesting problem whether Vassiliev invariants can detect the invertibility of a knot. It is well known that this problem can be deduced to a problem of a weight system, a map from the space of Jacobi diagrams modulo some relations (AS and IHX). Here a Jacobi diagram (called CC diagram in this paper) is a graph with cyclically oriented trivalent vertices and univalent vertices. Given a semisimple Lie algebra one can construct a weight system, but such a weight system cannot detect the knot invertibility. It is known that there exist weight systems that do not come from such a procedure [\textit{P. Vogel}, Algebraic structures on modules of diagrams, Université Paris VII preprint (1995); \textit{J. Lieberum}, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 8, No. 5, 659-666 (1999; Zbl 0937.57011)]. In the paper under review the author defines weight systems coming from voltage graphs associated with finite groups of the form \(H\times\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\) and proves that these also come from classical Lie algebras \(\mathfrak{gl}\) and \(\mathfrak{so}\). The author also discusses the possibility of detecting the knot invertibility by using Vassiliev invariants.