A neural network approach to predicting and computing knot invariants

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500054MaRDI QIDQ5111763zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark C. Hughes

Publication date 27 May 2020

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05744

zbMATH Keywords

neural networksknot invariantsknots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Artificial neural networks and deep learning (68T07) Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: In this paper we use artificial neural networks to predict and help compute the values of certain knot invariants. In particular, we show that neural networks are able to predict when a knot is quasipositive with a high degree of accuracy. Given a knot with unknown quasipositivity we use these predictions to identify braid representatives that are likely to be quasipositive, which we then subject to further testing to verify. Using these techniques we identify 84 new quasipositive 11 and 12-crossing knots. Furthermore, we show that neural networks are also able to predict and help compute the slice genus and Ozsv'{a}th-Szab'{o} $au$-invariant of knots.

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• Learning knot invariants across dimensions
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Uses Software

• Theano
• KnotInfo
• Keras
• HFK
• Adam
• GitHub

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