Wirtinger numbers for virtual links

DOI10.1142/S021821651950086XMaRDI QIDQ5221449zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Puttipong Pongtanapaisan

Publication date 25 March 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02923

zbMATH Keywords

virtual bridge numbervirtual linksWirtinger number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12)

Abstract: The Wirtinger number of a virtual link is the minimum number of generators of the link group over all meridional presentations in which every relation is an iterated Wirtinger relation arising in a diagram. We prove that the Wirtinger number of a virtual link equals its virtual bridge number. Since the Wirtinger number is algorithmically computable, it gives a more effective way to calculate an upper bound for the virtual bridge number from a virtual link diagram. As an application, we compute upper bounds for the virtual bridge numbers and the quandle counting invariants of virtual knots with 6 or fewer crossings. In particular, we found new examples of nontrivial virtual bridge number one knots, and by applying Satoh's Tube map to these knots we can obtain nontrivial weakly superslice links.

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