On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Amit <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I would like to discuss the implementation of Braid Groups. This
Are you planning on going beyond what is already known? http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~nmd/snappea/ If so, what is your plan? > would involve the implementation of various invariants related to Braids > like the Alexander's polynomial > (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AlexanderPolynomial.html) by building up the > Burau representation of the same > (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BurauRepresentation.html) [There are more > accurate versions of Braid Group representation] and various other > properties relating to permutation group underlying Braids. However I could > not think of any idea which would implement the other invariants like the > Kauffman's invariant for knots (I wonder whether such kind of implementation > can be worked around atleast for knots with less number of crossings). I was > also looking through the implementation of Braid Diagrams by various means > one attempt was by using TikZ. Braid Diagrams can be converted into link > diagrams as every link can be represented as closed Braid. The main > motivation behind everything is to implement certain features in Knot Theory > module of Mathematica > (http://katlas.math.toronto.edu/wiki/The_Mathematica_Package_KnotTheory%60) > in Sympy. Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
