The number of oriented rational links with a given deficiency number

DOI10.1142/S0218216521500656zbMATH Open1481.57009arXiv2007.02819MaRDI QIDQ5022628FDOQ5022628

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)

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.

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

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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)

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