Square numbers, spanning trees and invariants of achiral knots

DOI10.4310/CAG.2005.V13.N3.A5MaRDI QIDQ2583314zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexander Stoimenow

Publication date 16 January 2006

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0003172

zbMATH Keywords

determinant of an achiral knotrational knotsquare number

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Abstract: We give constructions to realize an odd number, which is representable as sum of two squares, as determinant of an achiral knot, thus proving that these are exactly the numbers occurring as such determinants. Later we study which numbers occur as determinants of prime alternating achiral knots, and obtain a complete result for perfect squares. Using the checkerboard coloring, then an application is given to the number of spanning trees in planar self-dual graphs. Another application are some enumeration results on achiral rational knots. Finally, we describe the leading coefficients of the Alexander and skein polynomial of alternating achiral knots.

Review text

The main theorem of this paper is that an odd natural number is the determinant of an achiral knot if it is the sum of two squares. (The `only if' part was observed in [\textit{R. Hartley} and \textit{A. Kawauchi}, Math. Ann. 243, 63--70 (1979; Zbl 0394.57009)]). The author also finds a necessary and sufficient condition for an odd square number to be the determinant of a prime alternating achiral knot. As applications, achiral rational knots are enumerated by their determinant and the main theorem is interpreted in graph theoretic arguments.

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