Graphs, knots, links and applications

• Grant number: 15/08126-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: November 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Mathematics - Geometry and Topology
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Vendrúscolo
• Grantee: Abel Gomes de Oliveira Júnior
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/24454-8 - Algebraic, geometric and differential topology, AP.TEM

Abstract

We intend to study some introduction to knot and link theory. In special some invariants that, with a some elements on graph theory, allows an interesting application: The projective Plane is not embeddable in the 3-dimensional Euclidian space.