Generalization of the Conway-Gordon theorem and intrinsic linking on complete graphs

DOI10.1007/S00026-021-00536-5zbMATH Open1475.57030arXiv2004.10013OpenAlexW3161753438MaRDI QIDQ2033480FDOQ2033480

Authors: Hiroko Morishita, Ryo Nikkuni 

Publication date: 17 June 2021

Published in: Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Conway and Gordon proved that for every spatial complete graph on six vertices, the sum of the linking numbers over all of the constituent two-component links is odd, and Kazakov and Korablev proved that for every spatial complete graph with arbitrary number of vertices greater than six, the sum of the linking numbers over all of the constituent two-component Hamiltonian links is even. In this paper, we show that for every spatial complete graph whose number of vertices is greater than six, the sum of the square of the linking numbers over all of the two-component Hamiltonian links is determined explicitly in terms of the sum over all of the triangle-triangle constituent links. As an application, we show that if the number of vertices is sufficiently large then every spatial complete graph contains a two-component Hamiltonian link whose absolute value of the linking number is arbitrary large. Some applications to rectilinear spatial complete graphs are also given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10013

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zbMATH Keywords

linking numberspatial graphsConway-Gordon theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Knot theory (57K10)

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