On chirality of toroidal embeddings of polyhedral graphs

DOI10.1142/S021821651750050XMaRDI QIDQ4977906zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Senja Barthel

Publication date 17 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06040

zbMATH Keywords

chiralitytopological graphsknots and linkstemplating on a toroidal substratetopology and chemistry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.) (92E10)

Abstract: We investigate properties of spatial graphs on the standard torus. It is known that nontrivial embeddings of planar graphs in the torus contain a nontrivial knot or a nonsplit link due to [1],[2]. Building on this and using the chirality of torus knots and links [3],[4], we prove that nontrivial embeddings of simple 3-connected planar graphs in the standard torus are chiral. For the case that the spatial graph contains a nontrivial knot, the statement was shown by Castle [5]. We give an alternative proof using minors instead of the Euler characteristic. To prove the case in which the graph embedding contains a nonsplit link, we show the chirality of Hopf ladders with at least three rungs, thus generalising a theorem of Simon [6].

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• Intrinsic Chirality of Complete Graphs

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