The Trieste look at Knot Theory

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2011-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/1105.2238v1

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Geometric Topology

41 pages, 46 figures, Chapter in the book "Introductory Lectures on Knot Theory: Selected Lectures presented at the Advanced S

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This paper is base on talks which I gave in May, 2010 at Workshop in Trieste (ICTP). In the first part we present an introduction to knots and knot theory from an historical perspective, starting from Summerian knots and ending on Fox 3-coloring. We show also a relation between 3-colorings and the Jones polynomial. In the second part we develop the general theory of Fox colorings and show how to associate a symplectic structure to a tangle boundary so that tangles becomes Lagrangians (a proof of this result has not been published before). Chapter VI of the book "KNOTS: From combinatorics of knot diagrams to combinatorial topology based on knots will be based on this paper.

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