ON THE HULL NUMBERS OF TORUS LINKS

DOI10.1142/S0218216506004610zbMATH Open1102.57003OpenAlexW2963809716MaRDI QIDQ5483327FDOQ5483327

Authors Ivan Izmestiev 

Publication date 14 August 2006

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

hull numbertorus linkHelly theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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