Circuit presentation and lattice stick number with exactly four z-sticks

DOI10.1142/S0218216518500463MaRDI QIDQ4579866zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hyoungjun Kim, Sungjong No

Publication date 10 August 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00213

zbMATH Keywords

circuit presentationknotlattice stick numberlinkpillowcase formrational link

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Abstract: The lattice stick number $s_L(L)$ of a link $L$ is defined to be the minimal number of straight line segments required to construct a stick presentation of $L$ in the cubic lattice. Hong, No and Oh found a general upper bound $s_L(K)leq3c(K)+2$. A rational link can be represented by a lattice presentation with exactly 4 $z$-sticks. An $n$-circuit is the disjoint union of $n$ arcs in the lattice plane $mathbb{Z}^2$. An $n$-circuit presentation is an embedding obtained from the $n$-circuit by connecting each $n$ pair of vertices with one line segment above the circuit. By using a 2-circuit presentation, we can easily find the lattice presentation with exactly 4 $z$-sticks. In this paper, we show that an upper bound for the lattice stick number of rational $dfracpq$-links realized with exactly 4 $z$-sticks is $2p+6$. Furthermore it is $2p+5$ if $L$ is a 2-component link.

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