A natural framing of knots

DOI10.2140/GT.1998.2.31zbMATH Open0891.57010arXivmath/9803168OpenAlexW2152419010MaRDI QIDQ1383293FDOQ1383293

Michael T. Greene, Bert Wiest

Publication date: 14 April 1998

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a knot K in the 3-sphere, consider a singular disk bounded by K and the intersections of K with the interior of the disk. The absolute number of intersections, minimised over all choices of singular disk with a given algebraic number of intersections, defines the framing function of the knot. We show that the framing function is symmetric except at a finite number of points. The symmetry axis is a new knot invariant, called the natural framing of the knot. We calculate the natural framing of torus knots and some other knots, and discuss some of its properties and its relations to the signature and other well-known knot invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9803168

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zbMATH Keywords

signatureknot invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

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