Framed Knotoids and Their Quantum Invariants

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Publication date 07-2022
Journal Communications in Mathematical Physics
Volume | Issue number 393 | 2
Pages (from-to) 1035-1061
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
Abstract We modify the definition of spherical knotoids to include a framing, in analogy to framed knots, and define a further modification that includes a secondary ‘coframing’ to obtain ‘biframed’ knotoids. We exhibit topological spaces whose ambient isotopy classes are in one-to-one correspondence with framed and biframed knotoids respectively. We then show how framed and biframed knotoids allow us to generalize quantum knot invariants to a knotoid setting, leading to the construction of general Reshetikhin-Turaev type biframed knotoid invariants.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-022-04382-1
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