The number of oriented rational links with a given deficiency number

DOI10.1142/S0218216521500656MaRDI QIDQ5022628zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Y. Diao, Michael Lee Finney, Dawn Ray

Publication date 19 January 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02819

zbMATH Keywords

braid indexSeifert circlerational knotsrational linksdeficiency of knots/linksSeifert circle decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Enumerative combinatorics (05A99) Knot theory (57K10) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31)

Abstract: Let $U_n$ be the set of un-oriented and rational links with crossing number $n$, a precise formula for $|U_n|$ was obtained by Ernst and Sumners in 1987. In this paper, we study the enumeration problem of oriented rational links. Let $Lambd{a}_n$ be the set of oriented rational links with crossing number $n$ and let $Lambd{a}_n(d)$ be the set of oriented rational links with crossing number $n$ ($nge2$) and deficiency $d$. In this paper, we derive precise formulas for $|Lambd{a}_n|$ and $|Lambd{a}_n(d)|$ for any given $n$ and $d$ and show that ${\displaystyle }$ Lambda_n(d)=F_{n-d-1}^{(d)}+frac{1+(-1)^{nd}}{2}F^{(lfloor frac{d}{2} floor)}_{lfloor frac{n}{2} floor -lfloor frac{d+1}{2} floor}, ${\displaystyle }$ where $F_n^{(d)}$ is the convolved Fibonacci sequence.

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