Upper bounds for ropelength as a function of crossing number.

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(03)00168-8zbMATH Open1037.57003arXivmath/0210245MaRDI QIDQ1421981FDOQ1421981

Jason Cantarella, Chad A. S. Mullikin, X. W. C. Faber

Publication date: 3 February 2004

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper provides bounds for the ropelength of a link in terms of the crossing numbers of its split components. As in earlier papers, the bounds grow with the square of the crossing number; however, the constant involved is a substantial improvement on previous results. The proof depends essentially on writing links in terms of their arc-presentations, and has as a key ingredient Bae and Park's theorem that an n-crossing link has an arc-presentation with less than or equal to n+2 arcs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0210245

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zbMATH Keywords

thicknesscrossing numberropelengtharc presentation

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