Theta-curve polynomials and finite-type invariants

Determinants of Simple Theta Curves and Symmetric Graphs

A theta curve is a spatial embedding of the $θ$-graph in the three-sphere, taken up to ambient isotopy. We define the determinant of a theta curve as an integer-valued invariant arising from the first homology of its Klein cover. When a theta curve is simple, containing a constituent unknot, we prove that the determinant of the theta curve is the product of the determinants of the constituent knots. Our proofs are combinatorial, relying on Kirchhoff's Matrix Tree Theorem and spanning tree enumeration results for symmetric, signed, planar graphs.

双曲布兰努安θ曲线

Hyperbolic Brunnian Theta Curves

研究双曲布兰努安θ曲线的外部性质，证明其双曲性和本质圆柱面的不存在性，并分类了genus 2手柄结的布兰努安脊。

$C_k$-moves on spatial theta-curves and Vassiliev invariants

The $C_k$-equivalence is an equivalence relation generated by $C_k$-moves defined by Habiro. Habiro showed that the set of $C_k$-equivalence classes of the knots forms an abelian group under the connected sum and it can be classified by the additive Vassiliev invariant of order $\leq k-1$. We see that the set of $C_k$-equivalence classes of the spatial $θ$-curves forms a group under the vertex connected sum and that if the group is abelian, then it can be classified by the additive Vassiliev invariant of order $\leq k-1$. However the group is not necessarily abelian. In fact, we show that it i…

Cutting out arithmetic Teichmueller curves in genus two via Theta functions

We compute the class of arithmetic genus two Teichmueller curves in the Picard group of pseudo-Hilbert modular surfaces, distinguished according to their torsion order and spin invariant. As an application, we compute the number of genus two square-tiled surfaces with these invariants. The main technical tool is the computation of divisor classes of Hilbert Jacobi forms on the universal abelian surface over the pseudo-Hilbert modular surface.