On the combinatorics of smoothing

DOI10.1007/S10958-016-2802-5MaRDI QIDQ289736zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Micah W. Chrisman

Publication date 31 May 2016

Published in Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7383

zbMATH Keywords

spectral graph theoryknotsloop counting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: Many invariants of knots rely upon smoothing the knot at its crossings. To compute them, it is necessary to know how to count the number of connected components the knot diagram is broken into after the smoothing. In this paper, it is shown how to use a modification of a theorem of Zulli together with a modification of the spectral theory of graphs to approach such problems systematically. We give an application to counting subdiagrams of pretzel knots which have one component after oriented and unoriented smoothings.

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