Traditionally, knot theory deals with diagrams of knots and the search of invariants of diagrams which are invariant under the well known Reidemeister moves. This book goes one step beyond: it gives a method to construct invariants for one parameter famillies of diagrams and which are invariant under 'higher' Reidemeister moves. Luckily, knots in 3-space, often called classical knots, can be transformed into knots in the solid torus without loss of information. It turns out that knots in the solid torus have a particular rich topological moduli space. It contains many 'canonical' loops to which the invariants for one parameter families can be applied, in order to get a new sort of invariants for classical knots.
By:
Thomas Fiedler (Univ Paul Sabatier France) Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Country of Publication: Singapore Volume: 64 ISBN:9789811210297 ISBN 10: 9811210292 Series:Series on Knots & Everything Pages: 260 Publication Date:28 August 2019 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active