Title
Efficient Knot Discrimination via Quandle Coloring with SAT and #-SAT.
Abstract
We apply SAT and #-SAT to problems of computational topology: knot detection and recognition. Quandle coloring can be viewed as associations of elements of algebraic structures, called quandles, to arcs of knot diagrams such that certain algebraic relations hold at each crossing. The existence of a coloring (called colorability) and the number of colorings of a knot by a quandle are knot invariants that can be used to distinguish knots. We realise coloring instances as SAT and #-SAT instances, and produce experimental data demonstrating that a SAT-based approach to colorability is a practically efficient method for knot detection and #-SAT can be utilised for knot recognition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-42432-3_7
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Computational topology,Knot detection and equivalence,SAT and #-SAT solving,Quandle coloring
Algebraic relations,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Algebraic structure,Invariant (mathematics),Knot (unit),Mathematics,Computational topology
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9725
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. Fish124722.48
Alexei Lisitsa227245.94
David Stanovský3172.56
Sarah Swartwood400.34