2004/10/14 by Louis H. Kauffman, Kauffman, Louis H.
Mathematics · #57M25 #FOS: Mathematics #General Topology (math.GN) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Quantum Algebra (math.QA) #math.GN #math.QA #msc:57M25
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0410329
LaTeX document, 114 pages, 71 figures
openalex publication_date 2004/10/14 · arxiv created 2004/11/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2024/04/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper is a survey of knot theory and invariants of knots and links from the point of view of categories of diagrams. The topics range from foundations of knot theory to virtual knot theory and topological quantum field theory.