On chirality of toroidal embeddings of polyhedral graphs

DOI10.1142/S021821651750050XzbMATH Open1379.57007arXiv1505.06040OpenAlexW2605582363MaRDI QIDQ4977906FDOQ4977906

Authors: Senja Barthel 

Publication date: 17 August 2017

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

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].

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

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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)

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