The Teneva game

DOI10.1142/S0218216512501258zbMATH Open1279.57010arXiv1204.5011OpenAlexW2963758767MaRDI QIDQ4906458FDOQ4906458

Authors: Louis Kauffman, Pedro Lopes 

Publication date: 11 February 2013

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

Abstract: For each prime p > 7 we obtain the expression for an upper bound on the minimum number of colors needed to non-trivially color T(2, p), the torus knots of type (2, p), modulo p. This expression is t + 2 l -1 where t and l are extracted from the prime p. It is obtained from iterating the so-called Teneva transformations which we introduced in a previous article. With the aid of our estimate we show that the ratio "number of colors needed vs. number of colors available" tends to decrease with increasing modulus p. For instance as of prime 331, the number of colors needed is already one tenth of the number of colors available. Furthermore, we prove that 5 is minimum number of colors needed to non-trivially color T(2, 11) modulo 11. Finally, as a preview of our future work, we prove that 5 is the minimum number of colors modulo 11 for two rational knots with determinant 11.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5011

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zbMATH Keywords

knotstorus knotscoloringsminimum number of colorsdiagramsTeneva transformations

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