The quiver state model calculates a new polynomial to distinguish virtual knots, implying new insights into knot theory.
By extending the quiver state model that calculates the generalized Alexander polynomial defined by Kauffman and Radford, we introduce a new state model via the parity for crossings and define a polynomial called the even generalized Alexander polynomial in the paper. We prove that this polynomial is an invariant of virtual knots and show that there is a specific virtual knot that can be distinguished from the trivial knot by the polynomial. And we introduce other generalized polynomial invariants via parity.
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Kim et al. (2026) studied this question.