Quadruple crossing number of knots and links

DOI10.1017/S0305004113000649zbMATH Open1305.57005arXiv1211.2726OpenAlexW2111397574MaRDI QIDQ5408699FDOQ5408699

Authors: Colin Adams 

Publication date: 11 April 2014

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A quadruple crossing is a crossing in a projection of a knot or link that has four strands of the knot passing straight through it. A quadruple crossing projection is a projection such that all of the crossings are quadruple crossings. In a previous paper, it was proved that every knot and link has a quadruple crossing projection and hence, every knot has a minimal quadruple crossing number. In this paper, we investigate quadruple crossing number, and in particular, use the span of the bracket polynomial to determine quadruple crossing number for a variety of knots and links.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2726

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zbMATH Keywords

crossing numberbracket polynomialquadruple crossing

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