2004arXiv (Cornell University)Open access

Knot Diagrammatics

Louis H. Kauffman

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This paper is a survey of knot theory and invariants of knots and links from the point of view of categories of diagrams. The topics range from foundations of knot theory to virtual knot theory and topological quantum field theory.

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This paper is a survey of knot theory and invariants of knots and links from the point of view of categories of diagrams. The topics range from foundations of knot theory to virtual knot theory and topological quantum field theory.

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This paper is a survey of knot theory and invariants of knots and links from the point of view of categories of diagrams. The topics range from foundations of knot theory to virtual knot theory and topological quantum field theory.

Key concepts: Knot (papermaking), Knot theory, Knot polynomial, Knot invariant, Quantum invariant, Theoretical physics, Topological quantum field theory, Tricolorability

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