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Sep 7
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About This Class
 090910-1: 3-colourings, Reidemeister's theorem, invariance, the Kauffman bracket.
090910-2: R23 invariance of the bracket, R1, the writhe, the Jones polynomial, programming the Jones polynomial.
Tricolourability
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Sep 14
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090915: More on Jones, some pathologies and more on Reidemeister, our overall agenda.
090917-1: The definition of finite type, weight systems, Jones is a finite type series.
090917-2: The skein relation for Jones; HOMFLY-PT and Conway; the weight system of Jones.
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Sep 21
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090922: FI, 4T, HOMFLY and FI and 4T, statement of the Fundamental Theorem, framed knots.
090924-1: Some dimensions of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal A}_n}
, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal A}}
is a commutative algebra, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal A}(\bigcirc)\equiv{\mathcal A}(\uparrow)}
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Class Photo
090924-2: Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal A}}
is a co-commutative algebra, the relation with products of invariants, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal A}}
is a bi-algebra.
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Sep 28
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Homework Assignment 1
Homework Assignment 1 Solutions
090929: The Milnor-Moore theorem, primitives, the map Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal A}^r\to{\mathcal A}}
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091001-1: Jacobi diagrams, AS, IHX, STU, and the equivalence of all that with 4T.
091001-2: The very basics on Lie algebras.
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Oct 5
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091006: Lie algebraic weight systems, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle gl_N}
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091008-1: More on Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle gl_N}
, Lie algebras and the four colour theorem.
091008-2: The "abstract tenssor" approach to weight systems, Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal U}({\mathfrak g})}
and PBW, the map Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal T}_{\mathfrak g}}
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Oct 12
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091013: Algebraic properties of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal U}({\mathfrak g})}
vs. algebraic properties of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal A}}
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Thursday's class canceled.
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Oct 19
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091020: Universal finite type invariants, filtered and graded spaces, expansions.
Homework Assignment 2
The Stonehenge Story
091022-1: The Stonehenge Story to IHX and STU.
091022-2: The Stonhenge Story: anomalies, framings, relation with physics.
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Oct 26
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091027: Knotted trivalent graphs and their chord diagrams.
091029-1: Zsuzsi Dancso on the Kontsevich Integral (1).
091029-2: Zsuzsi Dancso on the Kontsevich Integral (2).
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Nov 2
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091103: The details of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {\mathcal A}^{TG}}
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091105-1: Three basic problems: genus, unknotting numbers, ribbon knots.
091105-2: The three basic problems and algebraic knot theory.
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Nov 9
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091110: Tangles and planar algebras, shielding and the generators of KTG.
Homework Assignment 3
No Thursday class.
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Nov 16
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Local Khovanov Homology
091119-1: Local Khovanov homology, I.
091119-2: Local Khovanov homology, II.
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Nov 23
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091124: Emulation of one structure inside another, deriving the pentagon.
091126-1: Peter Lee on braided monoidal categories, I.
091126-2: Peter Lee on braided monoidal categories, II.
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Nov 30
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091201: The relations in KTG.
091203-1: The Existence of the Exponential Function.
091203-2: The Final Exam, Dror's failures.
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Dec 7
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The Final Exam on Thu Dec 10, 9-11, Bahen 6183.
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In Preparation
The information below is preliminary and cannot be trusted! (v)
Solve the following problems and submit them in class by October 29, 2009:
Problem 1.
- Find a concise algorithm to compute the weight system Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle W_{so}}
associated with the Lie algebra Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle so(N)}
in its defining representation.
- Verify that your algorithm indeed satisfies the Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 4T}
relation.
Problem 2. The Kauffman polynomial Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F(K)(a,z)}
(see [Kauffman]) of a knot or link Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle K}
is Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a^{-w(K)}L(K)}
where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle w(L)}
is the writhe of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle K}
and where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle L(K)}
is the regular isotopy invariant defined by the skein relations
Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle L(s_\pm)=a^{\pm 1}L(s))}
(here Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle s}
is a strand and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle s_\pm}
is the same strand with a Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \pm}
kink added) and
Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle L(\backoverslash)+L(\slashoverback) = z\left(L(\smoothing)+L(\hsmoothing)\right)}
and by the initial condition Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle L(\bigcirc)=1}
. State and prove the relationship between Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F}
and 
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Problem 3.
Mandatory but unenforced. Find yourself in the class photo and identify yourself as explained in the photo page.
[Kauffman] ^ L. H. Kauffman, An invariant of regular isotopy, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 312 (1990) 417-471.
