Genus ranges of chord diagrams

DOI10.1142/S0218216515500224zbMATH Open1314.05043arXiv1410.6148OpenAlexW3103488501WikidataQ36165487 ScholiaQ36165487MaRDI QIDQ5255359FDOQ5255359

Authors: Jonathan Burns, Masahico Saito, Nataşa Jonoska 

Publication date: 15 June 2015

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

Abstract: A chord diagram consists of a circle, called the backbone, with line segments, called chords, whose endpoints are attached to distinct points on the circle. The genus of a chord diagram is the genus of the orientable surface obtained by thickening the backbone to an annulus and attaching bands to the inner boundary circle at the ends of each chord. Variations of this construction are considered here, where bands are possibly attached to the outer boundary circle of the annulus. The genus range of a chord diagram is the genus values over all such variations of surfaces thus obtained from a given chord diagram. Genus ranges of chord diagrams for a fixed number of chords are studied. Integer intervals that can, and cannot, be realized as genus ranges are investigated. Computer calculations are presented, and play a key role in discovering and proving the properties of genus ranges.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6148

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zbMATH Keywords

chord diagramsdouble-occurrence wordsgenus ranges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

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