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ArticleProceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2020

Knot polynomials of open and closed curves.

Eleni Panagiotou, Louis H Kauffman

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Article in Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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  6. Knot data analysis using multiscale Gauss link integral.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  7. Knotted artifacts in predicted 3D RNA structures.PLoS computational biology · 2024
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Eleni PanagiotouDepartment of Mathematics and SimCenter, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 37403, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1655-6447
Louis H KauffmanDepartment of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7045, USA.

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Abstract

In this manuscript, we introduce a method to measure entanglement of curves in 3-space that extends the notion of knot and link polynomials to open curves. We define the bracket polynomial of curves in 3-space and show that it has real coefficients and is a continuous function of the curve coordinates. This is used to define the Jones polynomial in a way that it is applicable to both open and closed curves in 3-space. For open curves, the Jones polynomial has real coefficients and it is a continuous function of the curve coordinates and as the endpoints of the curve tend to coincide, the Jones polynomial of the open curve tends to that of the resulting knot. For closed curves, it is a topological invariant, as the classical Jones polynomial. We show how these measures attain a simpler expression for polygonal curves and provide a finite form for their computation in the case of polygonal curves of 3 and 4 edges.

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Jones polynomialKauffman bracket polynomialknotoidslinking numberlinksopen knots

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PMID32922152
PMCPMC7482204

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