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Over then Under Tangles

Trends in Low-Dimensional Topology, online, May 5 2020, noon.

Abstract. Brilliant wrong ideas should not be buried and forgotten. Instead, they should be mined for the gold that lies underneath the layer of wrong. In this paper we explain how "over then under tangles" lead to an easy classification of knots, and under the surface, also to some valid mathematics: an easy classification of braids and virtual braids, an understanding of the Drinfel'd double procedure in quantum algebra, and more.

Based on a paper in preparation with Zsuzsanna Dancso and Roland van der Veen.

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