Intrinsic linking and knotting in virtual spatial graphs

DOI10.2140/AGT.2007.07.583MaRDI QIDQ2464765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Blake Mellor, Thomas Fleming

Publication date 17 December 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606231

zbMATH Keywords

intrinsically knottedintrinsically linkedspatial graphvirtual knotvirtual unknotting number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We introduce a notion of intrinsic linking and knotting for virtual spatial graphs. Our theory gives two filtrations of the set of all graphs, allowing us to measure, in a sense, how intrinsically linked or knotted a graph is; we show that these filtrations are descending and non-terminating. We also provide several examples of intrinsically virtually linked and knotted graphs. As a byproduct, we introduce the {it virtual unknotting number} of a knot, and show that any knot with non-trivial Jones polynomial has virtual unknotting number at least 2.

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