Braid ordering and knot genus

DOI10.1142/S0218216511009169MaRDI QIDQ3094852zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tetsuya Ito

Publication date 27 October 2011

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2042

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsDehornoy floorDehornoy orderingknot genus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: The genus of knots is a one of the fundamental invariant and can be seen as a complexity of knots. In this paper, we give a lower bound of genus using Dehornoy floor, which is a measure of complexity of braids in terms of braid ordering.

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