On the minimum number of colors for knots

DOI10.1016/J.AAM.2006.11.006MaRDI QIDQ2474262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pedro Lopes, Louis Kauffman

Publication date 5 March 2008

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0512088

zbMATH Keywords

coloringscolorsknotsTeneva transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract: In this article we take up the calculation of the minimum number of colors needed to produce a non-trivial coloring of a knot. This is a knot invariant and we use the torus knots of type (2, n) as our case study. We calculate the minima in some cases. In other cases we estimate upper bounds for these minima leaning on the features of modular arithmetic. We introduce a sequence of transformations on colored diagrams called Teneva Transformations. Each of these Transformations reduces the number of colors in the diagrams by one (up to a point). This allows us to further decrease the upper bounds on these minima. We conjecture on the value of these minima. We apply these Transformations to rational knots.

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