Braid index bounds ropelength from below

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500194zbMATH Open1439.57009arXiv1901.10663MaRDI QIDQ5111676FDOQ5111676

Authors: Y. Diao 

Publication date: 27 May 2020

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

Abstract: For an un-oriented link $mathcalK$, let $L(mathcalK)$ be the ropelength of $mathcalK$. It is known that when $mathcalK$ has more than one component, different orientations of the components of $mathcalK$ may result in different braid index. We define the largest braid index among all braid indices corresponding to all possible orientation assignments of $mathcalK$ the {em absolute braid index} of $mathcalK$ and denote it by $extbfB(mathcalK)$. In this paper, we show that there exists a constant $a>0$ such that $L(mathcalK)geaextbfB(mathcalK)$ for any $mathcalK$, {em i.e.}, the ropelength of any link is bounded below by its absolute braid index (up to a constant factor).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10663

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zbMATH Keywords

knotslinksropelengthbraid index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

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