The writhe of permutations and random framed knots

DOI10.1002/RSA.20704zbMATH Open1372.05002arXiv1511.09469OpenAlexW3102097287MaRDI QIDQ5360871FDOQ5360871

Authors: Chaim Even-Zohar 

Publication date: 26 September 2017

Published in: Random Structures \& Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce and study the writhe of a permutation, a circular variant of the well-known inversion number. This simple permutation statistics has several interpretations, which lead to some interesting properties. For a permutation sampled uniformly at random, we study the asymptotics of the writhe, and obtain a non-Gaussian limit distribution. This work is motivated by the study of random knots. A model for random framed knots is described, which refines the Petaluma model. The distribution of the framing in this model is equivalent to the writhe of random permutations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09469

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zbMATH Keywords

method of momentsrandom knotwrithepermutation statisticsframed knotcircular rank correlation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05)

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