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    {\normalfont \bfseries A Very Fast and Very Strong Knot Invariant}
    
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\parpic[r]{\scriptsize\normalfont \itshape February 18, 2025.}
    {\scriptsize Dror Bar-Natan} \\[-2pt]
    {\scriptsize University of Toronto}\\[-2pt]
    {\scriptsize \normalfont \ttfamily drorbn@utoronto.ca}
    
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%{\normalfont \itshape February 18, 2025.}
Given a knot $K$, draw it in the plane
as a long knot diagram $D$ with $n$ crossings in such a way that the
two strands intersecting at each crossing are pointing up, and so that
at its beginning and at its end the knot is oriented upward. Label
with a running index $k$
which runs from 1 to $2n+1$, and with a ``rotation number'' $\varphi_k$, the
geometric rotation number of that edge. On the right the rotation numbers for all edges are $0$
except for $\varphi_4=-1$.

Let $A$ be the $(2n+1)\times(2n+1)$ matrix with
entries in the ring $\bbZ[T^{\pm 1}]$ obtained by starting with the identity matrix $I_{2n+1}$
and adding to it one contribution per crossing as follows ($s$ is the
sign of the crossing):
\def\ip{i\!+\!1} \def\jp{j\!+\!1}
\begin{equation} \label{eq:Xings}
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    \text{add at} &   \text{col. }\ip &  \text{col. }\jp \\
    \hline
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  four planar binary
  trees, each of whose roots has no left child---these four trees are shown beside the rectangulation, {\bfseries where two of the trees are single nodes (or childless roots).}
The nodes on the right correspond to the rectangles on the left. 
  
  This gives a bijective proof of the result of Asinowski and Banderier, and is part of a joint project-in-process with these authors.  


  
    
     
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Asinowski  \& Banderier.
\newblock {From geometry to generating functions: rectangulations and permutations}.
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