Complementary Regions of Multi-Crossing Projections of Knots

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Publication date: 1 October 2012

Abstract: An increasing sequence of integers is said to be universal for knots if every knot has a reduced regular projection on the sphere such that the number of edges of each complementary face of the projection comes from the given sequence. Adams, Shinjo, and Tanaka have, in a work, shown that (2,4,5) and (3,4,n) (where n is a positive integer greater than 4), among others, are universal. In a forthcoming paper, Adams introduces the notion of a multi-crossing projection of a knot. An n-crossing projection} is a projection of a knot in which each crossing has n strands, rather than 2 strands as in a regular projection. We then extend the notion of universality to such knots. These results allow us to prove that (1,2,3,4) is a universal sequence for both n-crossing knot projections, for all n>2. Adams further proves that all knots have an n-crossing projection for all positive n. Another proof of this fact is included in this paper. This is achieved by constructing n-crossing template knots, which enable us to construct multi-crossing projections with crossings of any multiplicity.

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