New computations of the superbridge index

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500960zbMATH Open1460.57006arXiv2009.13648OpenAlexW3113737977MaRDI QIDQ4965613FDOQ4965613

Authors: Clayton Shonkwiler 

Publication date: 6 March 2021

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

Abstract: The knots $8_1$, $8_2$, $8_3$, $8_5$, $8_6$, $8_7$, $8_8$, $8_{10}$, $8_{11}$, $8_{12}$, $8_{13}$, $8_{14}$, $8_{15}$, $9_7$, $9_{16}$, $9_{20}$, $9_{26}$, $9_{28}$, $9_{32}$, and $9_{33}$ all have superbridge index equal to 4. This follows from new upper bounds on superbridge index not coming from the stick number and increases the number of knots from the Rolfsen table for which superbridge index is known from 29 to 49. Appendix A gives the current state of knowledge of superbridge index for prime knots through 10 crossings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13648

Recommendations

• A COMPUTATION OF SUPERBRIDGE INDEX OF KNOTS
• A complete list of minimal diagrams of an oriented alternating knot
• Lower bound of the unknotting number of prime knots with up to 12 crossings
• THE 2-BRIDGE KNOTS OF UP TO 16 CROSSINGS
• Prime knots with arc index 12 up to 16 crossings
• New superbridge index calculations from non-minimal realizations
• Knots with exactly 10 sticks
• TABULATING ALTERNATING KNOTS THROUGH 14 CROSSINGS
• Triple crossing number and double crossing braid index
• The concordance genus of 11-crossing knots

zbMATH Keywords

linear programmingknotscovering spacesstick numbersuperbridge indexrandom polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Knot theory (57K10)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Ramsey Theorems for Knots, Links and Spatial Graphs
• QUADRISECANTS OF KNOTS AND LINKS
• Linear Programming
• AN ELEMENTARY INVARIANT OF KNOTS
• A new knot invariant
• Polygon Indices and Superbridge Indices of Torus Knots and Links
• A COMPUTATION OF SUPERBRIDGE INDEX OF KNOTS
• Four-genus and four-dimensional clasp number of a knot
• GEOMETRIC KNOT SPACES AND POLYGONAL ISOTOPY
• Coxeter groups and meridional rank of links
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Closed curves with no quadrisecants
• Wirtinger systems of generators of knot groups
• Eine elementargeometrische Eigenschaft von Verschlingungen und Knoten
• Stick knots
• Symmetric quotients of knot groups and a filtration of the Gordian graph
• Quadrisecants and essential secants of knots with applications to the geometry of knots
• An upper bound on stick number of knots
• The spiral index of knots
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Knots with exactly 10 sticks

Cited In (3)

• All prime knots through 10 crossings have superbridge index \(\leq 5\)
• New superbridge index calculations from non-minimal realizations
• A new knot invariant

Uses Software

• KnotPlot
• SnapPy
• KnotInfo
• stick-knot-gen
• GitHub

This page was built for publication: New computations of the superbridge index

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4965613)