ON THE HULL NUMBERS OF TORUS LINKS

DOI10.1142/S0218216506004610zbMATH Open1102.57003arXivmath/0412139OpenAlexW2963809716MaRDI QIDQ5483327FDOQ5483327

Ivan Izmestiev

Publication date: 14 August 2006

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

Abstract: The n-th hull of a union of curves in R^3 is the set of points with the property: Any plane passing through the point intersects the curves at least 2n times. The hull number u(L) of a link L is defined as the minimum number of non-empty hulls a representative of L can have. We show that the hull numbers of torus links are smaller than expected, but still large. In particular, for a link of type (p,p) hull number equals 3p/5, and in general for the type (p,q) with q>p it is greater than or equal to p/2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412139

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zbMATH Keywords

hull numbertorus linkHelly theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Helly-type theorems and geometric transversal theory (52A35)

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• The second hull of a knotted curve

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