Colorings, determinants and Alexander polynomials for spatial graphs

DOI10.1142/S021821651650019XMaRDI QIDQ2802907zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Blake Mellor, Terry Kong, Alec Lewald, Vadim Pigrish

Publication date 27 April 2016

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06083

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialspatial graphs\(p\)-colorings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph polynomials (05C31) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15)

Abstract: A {em balanced} spatial graph has an integer weight on each edge, so that the directed sum of the weights at each vertex is zero. We describe the Alexander module and polynomial for balanced spatial graphs (originally due to Kinoshita cite{ki}), and examine their behavior under some common operations on the graph. We use the Alexander module to define the determinant and $p$-colorings of a balanced spatial graph, and provide examples. We show that the determinant of a spatial graph determines for which $p$ the graph is $p$-colorable, and that a $p$-coloring of a graph corresponds to a representation of the fundamental group of its complement into a metacyclic group $Gamma(p,m,k)$. We finish by proving some properties of the Alexander polynomial.

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