2025/02/25 by Gügümcü, Neslihan, Kayaslan, Hamdi · 1 citation
#57K12 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.18160
In this paper, we give a geometric interpretation of virtual knotoids as arcs in thickened surfaces. Then we show that virtual knotoid theory is a generalization of classical knotoid theory. This gives a proof of a conjecture of Kauffman and the first author.