Yang-Baxter invariants for line configurations

We study line configurations in 3-space by means of “line diagrams”, projections into a plane with an indication of over and under crossing at the vertices. If we orient such a diagram, we can associate a “contracted tensor”T with it in the same spirit as is done in Knot Theory. We give conditions to makeT independent of the orientation, and invariant under isotopy. The Yang-Baxter equation is one such condition. Afterwards we restrict ourselves to Yang-Baxter invariants with a topological state model, and give some new invariants for line isotopy.