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In this paper, we investigate representations of links that are either centrally symmetric in $mathbb{R}^3$ or antipodally symmetric in $mathbb{S}^3$. By using the notions of antipodally self-dual and antipodally symmetric maps, introduced and studied by the authors, we are able to present sufficient combinatorial conditions for a link $L$ to admit such representations. The latter naturally arises sufficient conditions for $L$ to be amphichiral. We also introduce another (closely related) method yielding again to sufficient conditions for $L$ to be amphichiral. We finally prove that a link $L$, associated to a map $G$, is amphichiral if the self-dual pairing of $G$ is not one of 6 specific ones among the classification of the 24 self-dual pairing $Cor(G) rhd Aut(G)$.
We introduce a new equivalence relation on decorated ribbon graphs, and show that its equivalence classes directly correspond to virtual links. We demonstrate how this correspondence can be used to convert any invariant of virtual links into an invariant of ribbon graphs, and vice versa.
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Given a space X we study the topology of the space of embeddings of X into $mathbb{R}^d$ through the combinatorics of triangulations of X. We give a simple combinatorial formula for upper bounds for the largest dimension of a sphere that antipodally
We show that the size of codes in projective space controls structural results for zeros of odd maps from spheres to Euclidean space. In fact, this relation is given through the topology of the space of probability measures on the sphere whose suppor
The ribbon cocycle invariant is defined by means of a partition function using ternary cohomology of self-distributive structures (TSD) and colorings of ribbon diagrams of a framed link, following the same paradigm introduced by Carter, Jelsovsky, Ka