| Speaker |
Kai Ishihara (Yamaguchi University) |
| Title |
Topological characterization of unlinking pathways |
| Date |
January 31 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
Unlinking of replication catenanes in E. coli is largely achieved by a type II topoisomerase (TopoIV).
However, the replication catenanes are also resolved by a site-specific recombinase (XerCD-dif recombination) without type II topoisomerase.
The action of type II topoisomerase is believed to be a crossing change on two double-stranded DNA segments.
On the other hand, the action of site-specific recombinase can be modeled by a band surgery.
We consider unlinking pathways by such enzyme actions and give some topological characterization for them. |
| Speaker |
Kouki Taniyama (Waseda University) |
| Title |
Unknotting numbers and crossing numbers of spatial embeddings of a planar graph |
| Date |
January 24 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
It is known that the unknotting number $u(L)$ of a link $L$ is less than
or equal to the half of the crossing number $c(L)$ of $L$. We will show
that there is a planar graph $G$ and its spatial embedding $f$ such that
the unknotting number $u(f)$ of $f$ is greater than the half of the crossing
number $c(f)$ of $f$. We study the relation between $u(f)$ and $c(f)$ in
general. This is a joint work with Y. Akimoto. |
| Speaker |
María de los Angeles Guevara Hernández (OCAMI) |
| Title |
On alternating closed braids |
| Date |
January 10 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
Links can be divided into alternating and non-alternating links and, due to Alexander's theorem,
it is known that any link can be presented as a closed braid. However, there are alternating links that cannot be presented as an alternating closed braid. In this talk,
we will discuss the set of links that can be presented as alternating closed braids and introduce invariants that measure how far the links are from this set. Furthermore,
we will show the value of these invariants for some knot families. This is joint work with Akio Kawauchi.
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| Speaker |
Takuya Katayama (Hiroshima University) |
| Title |
Embeddability between the right-angled Artin groups of surfaces |
| Date |
November 22 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
After Kim-Kobeda gave a combinatorial description of embeddings between right-angled Artin groups,
embeddability of right-angled Artin groups has been studied by many researchers. However, very little is known about relation between the topology of flag complexes and embeddings of right-angled Artin groups.
In this talk, we show that, for any finite simple graph whose flag complex is homeomorphic to a 2-sphere,
the right-angled Artin group of the graph cannot be embedded in the right-angled Artin group of a finite simple graph whose flag complex is homeomorphic to a closed orientable surface of positive genus. |
| Speaker |
In Dae Jong (Kindai University) |
| Title |
Complete exceptional surgeries on two-bridge links |
| Date |
November 15 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
We give a complete list of hyperbolic two-bridge links which can admit complete exceptional surgeries.
Whole of candidates of surgery slopes of them are also given. This is a joint work with Kazuhiro Ichihara (Nihon University) and Hidetoshi Masai (Tokyo Institute of Technology).
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| Speaker |
Shin'ya Okazaki (OCAMI) |
| Title |
On $SL(2,\mathbb{Z}_3)$ representation and constituent knots for handlebody-knots |
| Date |
October 25 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
Last year, we considered the constituent knots of a handlebody-knot by Litherland's Alexander polynomial. We obtained a necessary condition for a knot to be a constituent knot of the handlebody-knot $4_1$. In this talk, we describe another necessary condition by using $SL(2,\mathbb{Z}_3)$ representation of the handlebody-knot $4_1$, and we show this necessary condition is independent of the previous necessary condition. |
| Speaker |
Kanako Oshiro (Sophia University) |
| Title |
Knot-theoretic ternary quasigroup theory and shadow biquandle theory |
| Date |
October 11 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
A knot-theoretic ternary quasigroup is an algebraic system which equips a ternary operation coming from oriented knot diagrams with region labelings.
A shadow biquandle is an algebraic system which equips two binary operations and an action coming from oriented knot diagrams with semi-arc labelings and region labelings.
Note that the region labeling by a shadow biquandle depends on the semi-arc labeling whereas the region labeling by a knot-theoretic ternary quasigroup does not. In this talk, we show that under some condition, knot-theoretic ternary quasigroup theory and shadow biquandle theory are the same: Homology groups are the same; cocycle invariants for oriented surface-knots are the same. |
| Speaker |
Hideo Takioka (Kobe University, JSPS Research Fellow PD) |
| Title |
Clasp-pass moves and the $\Gamma$-polynomial for knots |
| Date |
July 26 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
We introduce two kinds of clasp-pass moves for knots called
self- and nonself-clasp-pass moves. Moreover, we show that if two knots
are related by a single self-clasp-pass move then their
$\Gamma$-polynomials differ and that if two knots are related by a finite
sequence of nonself-clasp-pass moves then their $\Gamma$-polynomials
coincide, where the $\Gamma$-polynomial is the common zeroth coefficient
polynomial of the HOMFLYPT and Kauffman polynomials.
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| Speaker |
Yuka Kotorii (RIKEN/Osaka University) |
| Title |
On Levine’s classification of link-homotopy classes of 4-component links |
| Date |
July 5 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
Two links are link-homotopic if they are transformed to each other by a sequence of self-crossing changes and ambient isotopies.
Milnor introduced this notion and classified 2- and 3-component links up to link-homotopy by Milnor invariants. Levine classified the set of the link-homotopy classes of 4-component links and gave some subsets of them which were classified by invariants as a corollary.
In this talk, we modify the results by using Habiro's clasper theory. The new classification allows us schematic treatment of the link-homotopy classes of 4-component links which has symmetry with respect to the components. We also give some new subsets of them which are classified by invariants.
This is joint work with Atsuhiko Mizusawa (Waseda University). |
| Speaker |
Naoki Kimura (Waseda University) |
| Title |
Dijkgraaf-Witten invariants of cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| Date |
June 21 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
The Dijkgraaf-Witten invariant is a topological invariant defined for closed oriented 3-manifolds in terms of a finite group and its 3-cocycle.
Dijkgraaf and Witten gave a combinatorial construction of the invariant by using a triangulation. Wakui showed the invariance of this combinatorial construction.
In this talk, we introduce a generalization of the Dijkgraaf-Witten invariant for cusped oriented 3-manifolds by using an ideal triangulation, and we calculate the generalized invariants for some cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
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| Speaker |
Mizuki Fukuda (Tokyo Gakugei University) |
| Title |
Gluck twist on branched twist spins |
| Date |
June 14 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
A branched twist spin is a smoothly embedded two sphere in the four sphere and it is defined as the set of non-free orbits of a circle action on the four sphere.
Gluck showed that the set of isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms on $S^1 \times S^2$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}_2$,
and an operation of removing a neighborhood of a 2-knot from the four sphere and regluing it by the generator of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ is called a Gluck twist.
It is known by Pao that the Gluck twist along a branched twist spin does not change the four sphere.
In this talk, we give an another proof of Pao’s result by using a decomposition of $S^4$ associated with the circle action, and we show that the set of branched twist spins does not change by the Gluck twist. |
| Speaker |
Hiroaki Karuo (RIMS, Kyoto University) |
| Title |
The reduced Dijkgraaf--Witten invariant of twist knots in the Bloch group of $\Bbb{F}_p$ |
| Date |
May 17 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
For a closed 3-manifold $M$, a group $G$, a 3-cocycle $\alpha$ of $G$,
and a representation $\rho \colon \pi_1(M) \to G$, the Dijkgraaf–Witten
invariant is defined to be $\rho^\ast \alpha [M]$, where $[M]$ is the fundamental
class of $M$, and $\rho^\ast \alpha$ is the pull-back of $\alpha$ by $\rho$.
We consider an equivalent invariant $\rho_\ast [M] \in H_3(G)$, and we
also regard it as the Dijkgraaf–Witten invariant. In 2004, Neumann described
the hyperbolic volume and Chern–Simons invariant of $M$ in terms of the
image of the Dijkgraaf–Witten invariant for $G={\rm SL}_2 \Bbb{C}$ by the
Bloch–Wigner map $H_3(M)\to \mathcal{B}(\Bbb{C})$, where $\mathcal{B}(\Bbb{C})$
is the Bloch group of $\Bbb{C}$. Further, in 2013, Hutchinson gave a construction
of the Bloch–Wigner map $H_3({\rm SL}_2 \Bbb{F}_p)\to \mathcal{B} (\Bbb{F}_p)$,
where $p$ is a prime, and $\Bbb{F}_p$ is the finite field of order $p$.
In this talk, I calculate the reduced Dijkgraaf–Witten invariant
of the complement of twist knots, where the reduced Dijkgraaf–Witten
invariant is the image of the Dijkgraaf–Witten invariant for ${\rm
SL}_2 \Bbb{F}_p$ by the Bloch–Wigner map $H_3({\rm SL}_2\Bbb{F}_p)
\to \mathcal{B} (\Bbb{F}_p)$. |
| Speaker |
Airi Aso (Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
| Title |
Twisted Alexander polynomials of tunnel number one Montesinos knots |
| Date |
May 10 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
The twisted Alexander polynomial was introduced in 1990's as a generalization of the Alexander polynomial,
which is one of the classical invariants of knots
determined by the fundamental groups of the complement of knots (i.e. knot groups). Since the twisted Alexander polynomial of a knot is determined by the knot group and their representation, it has more information than the classical Alexander polynomial. For example, Kinoshita-Terasaka and Conway's 11 crossing knots, which are not distinguished by their Alexander polynomials, are distinguished by their twisted Alexander polynomials.
The tunnel number of a knot $K$ is the minimal number of mutually disjoint arcs $\{ \tau_i \}$ in $S^3\setminus K$ such that the component of an open regular neighborhood of
$K \cup (\cup \tau_i)$ is a handlebody.
In this talk, we calculate the twisted Alexander polynomials of tunnel number one Montesinos knots associated to their $SL_2(\mathbb{C})$ representations. |
| Speaker |
Kengo Kawamura (Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute) |
| Title |
A simple calculation of the Arf invariant of a proper link |
| Date |
April 19 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
An oriented link $L$ is said to be proper if the linking number $\mathrm{lk}(K,L
\setminus K)$ is even for each component $K$ in $L$. The Arf invariant
$\mathrm{Arf}(L)\in\{0,1\}$ of a link $L$ is defined only when $L$ is a
proper link. It is known that there are several ways to calculate $\mathrm{Arf}(L)$,
e.g. using Seifert forms, the polynomial invariants, local moves, and 4-dimensional
techniques. However, it is not easy to use such methods for an arbitrarily
given proper link. In this talk, we introduce a simple way to calculate
the Arf invariant for such a proper link. |
| Speaker |
Ayaka Shimizu (National Institute of Technology, Gunma College) |
| Title |
The warping sum of knots |
| Date |
April 12 (Fri.) 16：00～17：00 |
| Place |
Dept. of Mathematics, Sci. Bldg., F415 |
| Abstract |
An oriented knot diagram is said to be monotone if one can travel along the diagram so that one meets each crossing as an over-crossing first starting at a point on the diagram.
The warping degree of an oriented knot diagram is the minimum number of crossing-changes which are required to obtain a monotone diagram from the knot diagram.
For an unoriented knot diagram, the warping sum is the value of the sum of the warping degrees with both orientations.
We define the warping sum of an unoriented knot to be the minimal value of the warping sum for all minimal-crossing diagrams of the knot.
It has been shown that the warping sum is less than or equal to the crossing number minus one for any knot, and the equality holds if and only if the knot is prime and alternating.
We also define a knot invariant, the reduced warping sum of a knot, to be the minimal value of the warping sum for all diagrams of the knot.
In this talk, we determine knots with warping sum and reduced warping sum three or less. This is a joint work with Slavik Jablan. |
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