Fabrication of a family of pyramidal links and their genus (Q2853189)

It is known that proteins can form topologically linked architectures. The authors extend the method of `branched alternating closed braids and double lines covering' to pyramids and get some pyramidal links. They compute the genus of links \(L(P)\) and prove that the genus of \(L(P)\) depends on \(n\) only, and the complexity of the \(L(P)\) increases with the increase of \(n\). The resulting structures have not been synthesized yet and might constitute interesting targets for a topology-aided molecular design.