Tangential derivations and virtual tangles
April-02-08
8:58 AM
Homotopy for virtual,
Speculative moral: Perhaps the whole relationship between knot theory and Lie algebras (and between knot theory and quantum groups) is bogus; it simply factors through the relationship of knot theory with group theory (or quandle theory) via the fundamental group of the complement. So perhaps I should forget about knot theory and study group theory.