Knot theory for self-indexed graphs

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03625-6zbMATH Open1074.57005arXivmath/0304061OpenAlexW1838483075WikidataQ60308780 ScholiaQ60308780MaRDI QIDQ4825664FDOQ4825664

Authors: Matías Graña, Vladimir Turaev 

Publication date: 28 October 2004

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce and study so-called self-indexed graphs. These are (oriented) finite graphs endowed with a map from the set of edges to the set of vertices. Such graphs naturally arise from classical knot and link diagrams. In fact, the graphs resulting from link diagrams have an additional structure, an integral flow. We call a self-indexed graph with integral flow a comte. The analogy with links allows us to define transformations of comtes generalizing the Reidemeister moves on link diagrams. We show that many invariants of links can be generalized to comtes, most notably the linking number, the Alexander polynomials, the link group, etc. We also discuss finite type invariants and quandle cocycle invariants of comtes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304061

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zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialknot diagramfinite type invariantquandle cocycle invariantself-indexed graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

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