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38 votes
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Why are there no wild arcs in the plane?

23 votes
4 answers
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Utility of virtual knot theory?

21 votes
1 answer
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Reference request: The first cohomology of SL(2,Z) with coefficients in homogeneous polynomials

19 votes
1 answer
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Propagation of an error in the LMO invariant? (Revision: I don't think LMO is wrong!)

18 votes
1 answer
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Is the moduli space of graphs simply connected?

17 votes
1 answer
661 views

Ordinal-indexed homology theory?

13 votes
3 answers
723 views

Algorithm for detecting ribbon or slice links?

12 votes
2 answers
615 views

GL(V)-representation theory for a Lie bracket kernel

10 votes
1 answer
6k views

Terminology question: "Transverse" v. "Transversal"

10 votes
4 answers
2k views

Why are operads so closely connected to mathematical physics?

9 votes
0 answers
515 views

Why is this vector space related to modular forms?

8 votes
1 answer
446 views

$\omega$-triviality of knots?

8 votes
2 answers
981 views

Quasi-Lie algebras in nature?

7 votes
3 answers
568 views

Tabulation of known unstable rational homology of moduli space?

7 votes
2 answers
321 views

An identity in the free associative algebra

6 votes
3 answers
371 views

Surgery along an arc connecting the components of a $2$-component link gives the unknot

6 votes
0 answers
271 views

Torsion in chord diagrams for 2-string links?

5 votes
3 answers
588 views

Does a compact semilocally simply connected geodesic space have the homotopy type of a CW complex?

5 votes
1 answer
551 views

What is the Schouten bracket for the Chevalley-Eilenberg complex with coefficients in a nontrivial module?

5 votes
1 answer
229 views

Dimensions of a vector space akin to modular symbols

5 votes
0 answers
264 views

Group cohomology in dimension $-1$

5 votes
1 answer
407 views

On the aperiodic monotile

4 votes
0 answers
84 views

Methods for showing homology of a subgroup survives to the larger group

4 votes
1 answer
671 views

Representation theory of infinite dihedral group

4 votes
1 answer
409 views

What is the relative weight filtration of the mapping class group of a surface?

3 votes
1 answer
266 views

Knot symmetries and the Alexander polynomial

0 votes
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284 views

Good and/or standard notation for the abelianization of a Lie algebra