• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.741-752
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• 2015

We introduce the warping crossing polynomial of an oriented knot diagram by using the warping degrees of crossing points of the diagram. Given a closed transversely intersected plane curve, we consider oriented knot diagrams obtained from the plane curve as states to take the sum of the warping crossing polynomials for all the states for the plane curve. As an application, we show that every closed transversely intersected plane curve with even crossing points has two independent canonical orientations and every based closed transversely intersected plane curve with odd crossing points has two independent canonical orientations.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.815-834
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• 2012

In this paper, we characterize surgery presentations for $\mathbb{Z}$-homology 3-spheres and $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$-homology 3-spheres obtained from $S^3$ by Dehn surgery along a knot or link which admits an even net diagram and show that the Casson invariant for $\mathbb{Z}$-homology spheres and the ${\mu}$-invariant for $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$-homology spheres can be directly read from the net diagram. We also construct oriented 4-manifolds bounding such homology spheres and find their some properties.