The writhe of permutations and random framed knots

DOI10.1002/RSA.20704MaRDI QIDQ5360871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chaim Even-Zohar

Publication date 26 September 2017

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

method of momentsrandom knotwrithepermutation statisticsframed knotcircular rank correlation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05)

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.

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