Extending quasi-alternating links

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500728zbMATH Open1469.57004arXiv2007.07770OpenAlexW3084546044MaRDI QIDQ3388024FDOQ3388024

Authors: Nafaa Chbili, Kirandeep Kaur 

Publication date: 8 January 2021

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

Abstract: Champanerkar and Kofman introduced an interesting way to construct new examples of quasi-alternating links from existing ones. Actually, they proved that replacing a quasi-alternating crossing c in a quasi-alternating link by a rational tangle of same type yields a new quasi-alternating link. This construction has been extended to alternating algebraic tangles and applied to characterize all quasi-alternating Montesinos links. In this paper, we extend this technique to any alternating tangle of same type as c. As an application, we give new examples of quasi-alternating knots of 13 and 14 crossings. Moreover, we prove that the Jones polynomial of a quasi-alternating link that is obtained in this way has no gap if the original link has no gap in its Jones polynomial. This supports a conjecture introduced in arXiv:1810.11773 [math.GT], which states that Jones polynomial of any prime quasi-alternating link except (2; n)-torus link has no gap.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07770

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zbMATH Keywords

Jones polynomialTait graphalternating tanglesquasi-alternating links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot polynomials (57K14) Knot theory (57K10)

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