Delta diagrams

DOI10.1142/S021821651641008XMaRDI QIDQ2827429zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. V. Jablan, Louis Kauffman, Pedro Lopes

Publication date 19 October 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06417

zbMATH Keywords

delta diagramsdiagramsknotslinkslune-free diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: We call a Delta Diagram any diagram of a knot or link whose regions (including the unbounded one) have 3, 4, or 5 sides. We prove that any knot or link admits a delta diagram. We define and estimate combinatorial link invariants stemming from this definition.

Review text

The main result of this paper is that every knot or link can be represented by a diagram on the 2-sphere such that every complementary region of the diagram has 3, 4, or 5 sides. The authors call such a diagram a delta diagram. They show that starting with a braid closure representation of a knot or link \(L\), one can, using a process called kinkification, obtain a delta diagram \(\Delta\) of \(L\). They further show that the number of crossings in \(\Delta\) is at most roughly \(c^4\) (plus some lower degree terms), where \(c\) is the (minimal) crossing number of \(L\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors comment that after they had completed this work, it was brought to their attention that it had previously been proven that every knot or link has a delta diagram [\textit{C. Adams} et al., Ann. Comb. 15, No. 4, 549--563 (2011; Zbl 1236.57011)]. They remark, however, that their proof is ``significantly different from that of Adams et al. [loc. cit.].

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