Quadruple crossing number of knots and links

DOI10.1017/S0305004113000649MaRDI QIDQ5408699zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Colin Adams

Publication date 11 April 2014

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

crossing numberbracket polynomialquadruple crossing

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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.

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