Diagram Genus, Generators, and Applications

Diagram Genus, Generators, and Applications

Author: Alexander Stoimenow

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1315362198

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In knot theory, diagrams of a given canonical genus can be described by means of a finite number of patterns ("generators"). Diagram Genus, Generators and Applications presents a self-contained account of the canonical genus: the genus of knot diagrams. The author explores recent research on the combinatorial theory of knots and supplies proofs for a number of theorems. The book begins with an introduction to the origin of knot tables and the background details, including diagrams, surfaces, and invariants. It then derives a new description of generators using Hirasawa’s algorithm and extends this description to push the compilation of knot generators one genus further to complete their classification for genus 4. Subsequent chapters cover applications of the genus 4 classification, including the braid index, polynomial invariants, hyperbolic volume, and Vassiliev invariants. The final chapter presents further research related to generators, which helps readers see applications of generators in a broader context.


Knots, Low-Dimensional Topology and Applications

Knots, Low-Dimensional Topology and Applications

Author: Colin C. Adams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-26

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 3030160319

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This proceedings volume presents a diverse collection of high-quality, state-of-the-art research and survey articles written by top experts in low-dimensional topology and its applications. The focal topics include the wide range of historical and contemporary invariants of knots and links and related topics such as three- and four-dimensional manifolds, braids, virtual knot theory, quantum invariants, braids, skein modules and knot algebras, link homology, quandles and their homology; hyperbolic knots and geometric structures of three-dimensional manifolds; the mechanism of topological surgery in physical processes, knots in Nature in the sense of physical knots with applications to polymers, DNA enzyme mechanisms, and protein structure and function. The contents is based on contributions presented at the International Conference on Knots, Low-Dimensional Topology and Applications – Knots in Hellas 2016, which was held at the International Olympic Academy in Greece in July 2016. The goal of the international conference was to promote the exchange of methods and ideas across disciplines and generations, from graduate students to senior researchers, and to explore fundamental research problems in the broad fields of knot theory and low-dimensional topology. This book will benefit all researchers who wish to take their research in new directions, to learn about new tools and methods, and to discover relevant and recent literature for future study.


Elements of Quasigroup Theory and Applications

Elements of Quasigroup Theory and Applications

Author: Victor Shcherbacov

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-05-12

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1351646362

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This book provides an introduction to quasigroup theory along with new structural results on some of the quasigroup classes. Many results are presented with some of them from mathematicians of the former USSR. These included results have not been published before in the western mathematical literature. In addition, many of the achievements obtained with regard to applications of quasigroups in coding theory and cryptology are described.


Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities with Applications

Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities with Applications

Author: Mircea Sofonea

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1498761593

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This research monograph represents an outcome of the cross-fertilization between nonlinear functional analysis and mathematical modelling, and demonstrates its application to solid and contact mechanics. Based on authors’ original results, it introduces a general fixed point principle and its application to various nonlinear problems in analysis and mechanics. The classes of history-dependent operators and almost history-dependent operators are exposed in a large generality. A systematic and unified presentation contains a carefully-selected collection of new results on variational-hemivariational inequalities with or without unilateral constraints. A wide spectrum of static, quasistatic, dynamic contact problems for elastic, viscoelastic and viscoplastic materials illustrates the applicability of these theoretical results. Written for mathematicians, applied mathematicians, engineers and scientists, it is also a valuable tool for graduate students and researchers in nonlinear analysis, mathematical modelling, mechanics of solids, and contact mechanics.


Iterative Methods and Preconditioning for Large and Sparse Linear Systems with Applications

Iterative Methods and Preconditioning for Large and Sparse Linear Systems with Applications

Author: Daniele Bertaccini

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1351649612

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This book describes, in a basic way, the most useful and effective iterative solvers and appropriate preconditioning techniques for some of the most important classes of large and sparse linear systems. The solution of large and sparse linear systems is the most time-consuming part for most of the scientific computing simulations. Indeed, mathematical models become more and more accurate by including a greater volume of data, but this requires the solution of larger and harder algebraic systems. In recent years, research has focused on the efficient solution of large sparse and/or structured systems generated by the discretization of numerical models by using iterative solvers.


Bounds for Determinants of Linear Operators and their Applications

Bounds for Determinants of Linear Operators and their Applications

Author: Michael Gil'

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-03-03

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1351652311

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This book deals with the determinants of linear operators in Euclidean, Hilbert and Banach spaces. Determinants of operators give us an important tool for solving linear equations and invertibility conditions for linear operators, enable us to describe the spectra, to evaluate the multiplicities of eigenvalues, etc. We derive upper and lower bounds, and perturbation results for determinants, and discuss applications of our theoretical results to spectrum perturbations, matrix equations, two parameter eigenvalue problems, as well as to differential, difference and functional-differential equations.


Properties of Closed 3-Braids and Braid Representations of Links

Properties of Closed 3-Braids and Braid Representations of Links

Author: Alexander Stoimenow

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-29

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 3319681494

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This book studies diverse aspects of braid representations via knots and links. Complete classification results are illustrated for several properties through Xu’s normal 3-braid form and the Hecke algebra representation theory of link polynomials developed by Jones. Topological link types are identified within closures of 3-braids which have a given Alexander or Jones polynomial. Further classifications of knots and links arising by the closure of 3-braids are given, and new results about 4-braids are part of the work. Written with knot theorists, topologists,and graduate students in mind, this book features the identification and analysis of effective techniques for diagrammatic examples with unexpected properties.


Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion-Convection Equations

Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion-Convection Equations

Author: Roman Cherniha

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-11-02

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1351650874

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It is well known that symmetry-based methods are very powerful tools for investigating nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), notably for their reduction to those of lower dimensionality (e.g. to ODEs) and constructing exact solutions. This book is devoted to (1) search Lie and conditional (non-classical) symmetries of nonlinear RDC equations, (2) constructing exact solutions using the symmetries obtained, and (3) their applications for solving some biologically and physically motivated problems. The book summarises the results derived by the authors during the last 10 years and those obtained by some other authors.


Intelligence of Low Dimensional Topology 2006

Intelligence of Low Dimensional Topology 2006

Author: J. Scott Carter

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9812705937

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This volume gathers the contributions from the international conference ?Intelligence of Low Dimensional Topology 2006,? which took place in Hiroshima in 2006. The aim of this volume is to promote research in low dimensional topology with the focus on knot theory and related topics. The papers include comprehensive reviews and some latest results.


Optimization and Differentiation

Optimization and Differentiation

Author: Simon Serovajsky

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-09-13

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 1351648489

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Optimization and Differentiation is an introduction to the application of optimization control theory to systems described by nonlinear partial differential equations. As well as offering a useful reference work for researchers in these fields, it is also suitable for graduate students of optimal control theory.