# Alexander Stoimenow

(to read this, use UTF-8 encoding - and learn some Korean)

Please note: my affiliation changed to

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
School of General Studies
GIST College, Bldg A, Room 212
123 Cheomdan-gwagiro, 1 Oryong-dong, Buk-gu,
Gwangju 500-712, Korea

phone: +82-10-4491-4241 (private cell phone) +82-62-715-3693 (office),
fax: +82-62-715-3609 (indicating my name)

Way to my building (in Korean; red circled) and how to find me there (also red circled).

e-mail : stoimeno_stoimenov.net

Please note this when you email me. Thank you.

Here is my CV as PS and PDF, and a few (more) facts about me in HTML.

### Some information on our book about my father and its presentation event (in Bulgarian).

My (current GIST) namecard in English and Korean. Here are older ones: Keimyung, KAIST (in English and Korean), Osaka CU in Japanese and English.

## My Interests

### Conduct and Correctness in Mathematical Publishing

"We risk sliding down toward the standards where the validity of action is decided by whether one can get away with it." (P. Doty)

"We do not 'risk' sliding down toward such standards; we have reached them." (S. Lang)

This is an essay (PDF, PS) in which I try to express my fear about the establishment of a culture of publishing, where no one is willing to take responsibility for the correctness of mathematics, and readers finding mistakes in published proofs are stamped as outcasts, because they are deemed to target the reputation of authors and journals.

A summary appeared in the June/July 2010 Notices of the AMS, Letters to the Editor.

As a respectable senior puts it: "... don't be so hard on the mathematical careerists. They're not as smart as you and must be held to a lower standard."

### Photos

Some old photos (now more, but takes less to load because reorganized!)

For more recent photos, you may check out my flickr page.

## A few interesting knots

My favorite knot 942. From the table one sees that it has self-conjugate Homfly (even Kauffman) polynomial, but it does prove that it is chiral! How? Hint: the next such knot is 10125. Is the above knot that of the Rolfsen picture or its obverse?

15224980, Thistlethwaite's achiral 15 crossing knot. Here I announced the construction of amphicheiral knots of all odd crossing numbers $>15$

A 21(?) crossing knot for which Morton's conjectured inequality fails. (See here for explanation.)

## Working topics

More specifically, my current working topics are:

• properties of positive knots and related knot classes.
• properties of the knot polynomials, especially the Jones polynomial
• Seifert surfaces coming from the Seifert algorithm
• Gauss sums and Vassiliev invariants in the 3-sphere and solid torus
• evaluation of knot tables for knots with specific properties
• unknotting numbers
• number theoretical properties of knot invariants
• Density of the Burau and Lawrence-Krammer representation

## Some papers, talks and programs

Alexander Stoimenow,
stoimeno_stoimenov.net

This web page was last updated 04/06/20 21:04:50.

My attitude toward my webpage is (and it therefore looks) like this of many other mathematicians: I would love to have a much nicer one, but spending time on it is one of my last priorities. In particular, while I update this page from time to time, some parts may still be hopelessly outdated.