Re: The UD as a knotted string

2016-09-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Stephen, All of Lou's ideas have a common thread, but I wonder which one's you have in mind. I have in mind the relation he showed between knot, an abstract quantum computer, Jones Polynomial, the projector algebra and the temperley-Lieb structure (and Dirac formalism)notabl

Re: The UD as a knotted string

2016-09-25 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Bruno, All of Lou's ideas have a common thread, but I wonder which one's you have in mind. On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 25 Sep 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any reason why the UD string is *not* a 1d topological object? > >

Re: The UD as a knotted string

2016-09-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Sep 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi, Is there any reason why the UD string is *not* a 1d topological object? Computability theory is dimensionless (cf the SMN theorem and/or the recursive bijection). But that is for the 3p description. Some topology, and perhaps some

The UD as a knotted string

2016-09-25 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi, Is there any reason why the UD string is *not* a 1d topological object? If it is a 1d topological string, can it be knotted? If it can be knotted, can the reflexivity ideas of Lou Kauffman be applied? For example: https://youtu.be/f_8eCnaxPzc?t=35m32s -- You received this message because