Construction of weaving and polycatenane motifs from periodic tilings of the plane

arXiv2206.12168MaRDI QIDQ6403047FDOQ6403047

Publication date: 24 June 2022

Abstract: Doubly periodic weaves and polycatenanes embedded in the thickened Euclidean plane are three-dimensional complex entangled structures whose topological properties can be encoded in any generating cell of its infinite planar representation. Such a periodic cell, called motif, is a specific type of link diagram embedded on a torus consisting of essential simple closed curves for weaves, or null-homotopic for polycatenanes. In this paper, we introduce a methodology to construct such motifs using the concept of polygonal link transformations. This approach generalizes to the Euclidean plane existing methods to construct polyhedral links in the three-dimensional space. Then, we will state our main result which allows one to predict the type of motif that can be built from a given planar periodic tiling and a chosen polygonal link method.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Knot theory (57K10) Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12)

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