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Publications and source records attributed to I. M. Nikonov.
In the present paper we develop the techniques suggested in \cite{ManturovNikonov} and the photography principle \cite{ManturovWan} for constructing an invariant of 3-manifolds based on Ptolemy relation. We show that a direct implementation of the techniques leads to a trivial invariant and discuss how this approach can be improved to circumvent the difficulties encountered.
The motivation for this work is to construct a map from classical knots to virtual ones. What we get in the paper is a series of maps from knots in the full torus (thickened torus) to flat-virtual knots. We give definition of flat-virtual knots and presents Alexander-like polynomial and (picture-valued) Kauffman bracket for them.
Using the recoupling theory, we define a representation of the pure braid group and show that it is not trivial.
Virtual knot theory has experienced a lot of nice features that did not appear in classical knot theory, e.g., parity and picture-valued invariants. In the present paper we use virtual knot theory effects to construct new representations of classical (pure) braids.
In the present paper, we address the problem how to get a map from knots in the cylinder and on the thickened torus to some (generalisation of) virtual knots called virtual-flat knots. The main construction takes a diagram on a cylinder (torus) and adds some ``invisible'' crossings which gives rise to a diagram which can be formally immersed but not embedded (drawn) on the cylinder (torus) and living comfortably in thickened surfaces of higher genera. This allows one to ``pull back'' invariants of virtual theory to the theory of knots in the thickened cylinder (torus) where the parity bracket and other picture-valued invariants are not strong enough.
The spaces of triangulations of a given manifold have been widely studied. The celebrated theorem of Pachner~\cite{Pachner} says that any two triangulations of a given manifold can be connected by a sequence of bistellar moves, or Pachner moves, see also~\cite{GKZ,Nabutovsky}. In the present paper we consider groups which naturally appear when considering the set of triangulations with fixed number of simplices of maximal dimension. There are three ways of introducing this groups: the geometrical one, which depends on the metric, the topological one, and the combinatorial one. The second one can be thought of as a ``braid group'' of the manifold and, by definition, is an invariant of the topological type of manifold; in a similar way, one can construct the smooth version. We construct a series of groups $Γ_{n}^{k}$ corresponding to Pachner moves of $(k-2)$-dimensional manifolds and construct a canonical map from the braid group of any $k$-dimensional manifold to $Γ_{n}^{k}$ thus getting topological/smooth invariants of these manifolds.