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Knots as processes: a new kind of invariant

L. G. Meredith, David F. Snyder

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We exhibit an encoding of knots into processes in the π-calculus such that knots are ambient isotopic if and only their encodings are weakly bisimilar.

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math.GTGeometric Topology cs.LOLogic in Computer Science

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  1. Animated Knots 1 comment
    • > The combined effect of knots on our technology and understanding of the world is fascinating. Knots as code, code as knots: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2107

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