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This is the construction / computation page for my joint paper with
Roland van der Veen:
A Very Fast, Very Strong, Topologically Meaningful and Fun Knot Invariant.
Paper PDF here: Theta.pdf. Computations here: Theta.nb.
Abstract. In this paper we introduce $\Theta=(\Delta,\theta)$, a pair of
polynomial knot invariants which is:
- Theoretically and practically fast: $\Theta$ can be computed in polynomial time
and we computed it in full on random knots with over 300 crossings,
and its evaluation on on simple rational numbers on random knots with over
700 crossings.
- Strong: Its separation power is much greater than, say, the
HOMFLY-PT polynomial and Khovanov homology (taken together) on knots
with up to 15 crossings (while computing much faster).
- Topologically meaningful: It gives a genus bound, and there are
reasons to hope that it would do more.
- Fun: Scroll to Figures 1.1, 1.2, and 3.1.
$\Delta$ is merely the Alexander polynomial. $\theta$ is almost
certainly equal to an invariant that was studied extensively by Ohtsuki
[
Oh], continuing Rozansky, Garoufalidis, and Kricker
[
GR,
Ro1,
Ro2,
Ro3,
Kr]. Yet our formulas,
proofs, and programs are much simpler and enable its computation even
on very large knots.
figs
KnotFigs
MRP
ProgramVariants
Sage
Snips
/
Projects: APAI
Projects: HigherRank: DunfieldKnots
Projects: HigherRank
Talks: Toronto-241030
PPDemo.pdf
Theta4Rolfsen.pdf
Theta_Journal.pdf
Theta.pdf
/
recycling.txt
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index |
source |
Tue 10 Sep 2024 12:37:57 |
Sun 2 Feb 2025 10:40:59 |
This is the index file for the Theta project. |
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Make |
source |
Sun 17 Nov 2024 11:56:59 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025 16:30:02 |
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Theta@241230 |
source |
Mon 30 Dec 2024 12:45:15 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024 12:15:55 |
This is the main Mathematica package that goes along with the paper "A Very Fast, Very Strong, Topologically Meaningful and Fun Knot Invariant" by Dror Bar-Natan and Roland van der Veen. |
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Theta-Antisymmetric |
source |
Fri 6 Dec 2024 22:32:12 |
Fri 6 Dec 2024 22:54:43 |
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Theta |
source |
Mon 16 Sep 2024 10:34:48 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025 11:48:01 |
This is the main Mathematica package that goes along with the paper "A Very Fast, Very Strong, Topologically Meaningful and Fun Knot Invariant" by Dror Bar-Natan and Roland van der Veen. |
- Studied Fri 20 Dec 2024 14:10:08: The two-loop knot invariant Theta.
abstract.tex
body.tex
dbnsymb.56pk
dbnsymb.600pk
dbnsymb.mf
dbnsymb.sty
dbnsymb.tfm
defs.tex
Implementation.tex
Invariance-R2c.tex
Invariance-R3.tex
makefile
Make.m
new_aux
old_aux
picins.sty
refs.tex
Theta-Antisymmetric.m
Theta.aux
Theta.brf
Theta.log
Theta.m
Theta.out
Theta.tex
Theta.toc