Unexpected local minima in the width complexes for knots

DOI10.2140/AGT.2011.11.1097zbMATH Open1227.57015arXiv1008.5003OpenAlexW2092982749MaRDI QIDQ2431289FDOQ2431289

Authors: Alexander Zupan 

Publication date: 12 April 2011

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

Abstract: In "Width complexes for knots and 3-manifolds," Jennifer Schultens defines the width complex for a knot in order to understand the different positions a knot can occupy in the 3-sphere and the isotopies between these positions. She poses several questions about these width complexes; in particular, she asks whether the width complex for a knot can have local minima that are not global minima. In this paper, we find an embedding of the unknot that is a local minimum but not a global minimum in its width complex. We use this embedding to exhibit for any knot K infinitely many distinct local minima that are not global minima of the width complex for K.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.5003

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zbMATH Keywords

global minimumbridge numberdirected graphMorse functionunknotthin positionlocal minimumknot widthlevel isotopywidth complex of a knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20)

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• Width complexes for knots and 3-manifolds
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