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Article Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 8Invariants of Bonded Knotoids and Applications To Protein Folding(MDPI, 2022) Güğümcü, Neslihan; Gabrovsek, Bostjan; Kauffman, Louis H.In this paper, we study knotoids with extra graphical structure (bonded knotoids) in the settings of rigid vertex and topological vertex graphs. We construct bonded knotoid invariants by applying tangle insertion and unplugging at bonding sites of a bonded knotoid. We demonstrate that our invariants can be used for the analysis of the topological structure of proteins.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 9Parity, Virtual Closure and Minimality of Knotoids(World Scientific Publishing, 2021) Güğümcü, Neslihan; Kauffman, Louis H.In this paper, we study parity in planar and spherical knotoids in relation to virtual knots. We introduce a planar version of the parity bracket polynomial for planar knotoids. We show that the virtual closure map (a map from the set of knotoids in S-2 to the set of virtual knots of genus at most one) is not surjective, by utilizing the surface bracket polynomial of virtual knots. We give specific examples of virtual knots that are not in the image of the virtual closure map. Turaev conjectured that minimal diagrams of knot-type knotoids have zero height. We prove this conjecture by using the results of Nikonov and Manturov induced by parities of virtual knots.Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 4Quantum Invariants of Knotoids(Springer, 2021) Güğümcü, Neslihan; Kauffman, Louis H.In this paper, we construct quantum invariants for knotoid diagrams in R-2. The diagrams are arranged with respect to a given direction in the plane (Morse knotoids). A Morse knotoid diagram can be decomposed into basic elementary diagrams each of which is associated to a matrix that yields solutions of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation. We recover the bracket polynomial, and define the rotational bracket polynomial, the binary bracket polynomial, the Alexander polynomial, the generalized Alexander polynomial and an infinity of specializations of the Homflypt polynomial for Morse knotoids via quantum state sum models.
