Graph skein modules and symmetries of spatial graphs

DOI10.1142/S0218216512500903MaRDI QIDQ2890237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nafaa Chbili

Publication date 8 June 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3766

zbMATH Keywords

skein modulesspatial graphssymmetryYamada polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10)

Abstract: In this paper, we compute the graph skein algebra of the punctured disk with two holes. Then, we apply the graph skein techniques developed here to establish necessary conditions for a spatial graph to have a symmetry of order $p$, where $p$ is a prime. The obstruction criteria introduced here extend some results obtained earlier for symmetric spatial graphs.

Review text

In previous work [Fundam. Math. 190, 1--10 (2006; Zbl 1090.05020)] the author gave necessary conditions for a spatial graph to be periodic with a prime period, using the Yamada skein algebra of the solid torus. The Yamada polynomial is an invariant of spatial graphs introduced in [\textit{S. Yamada}, J. Graph Theory 13, No. 5, 537--551 (1989; Zbl 0682.57003)]. In the present paper the author computes the Yamada skein algebra of the punctured disk with two holes, and uses the result to give improved necessary conditions for the existence of symmetries of prime order.

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