The bridge number of surface links and kei colorings

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12654MaRDI QIDQ6048877zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kouki Sato, Kokoro Tanaka

Publication date 15 September 2023

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07056

zbMATH Keywords

bridge numberbridge trisectionkeisurface knotsurface linktri-plane diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12) Higher-dimensional knots and links (57K45)

Abstract: Meier and Zupan introduced bridge trisections of surface links in $S^4$ as a 4-dimensional analogue to bridge decompositions of classical links, which gives a numerical invariant of surface links called the bridge number. We prove that there exist infinitely many surface knots with bridge number $n$ for any integer $ngeq4$. To prove it, we use colorings of surface links by keis and give lower bounds for the bridge number of surface links.

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