An infinite family of Legendrian torus knots distinguished by cube number

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.08.022MaRDI QIDQ649810zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ben McCarty

Publication date 6 December 2011

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4482

zbMATH Keywords

cube diagramknotlegendrian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: For a knot $K$ the cube number is a knot invariant defined to be the smallest $n$ for which there is a cube diagram of size $n$ for $K$. There is also a Legendrian version of this invariant called the emph{Legendrian cube number}. We will show that the Legendrian cube number distinguishes the Legendrian left hand torus knots with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number and maximal rotation number from the Legendrian left hand torus knots with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number and minimal rotation number.

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• AN INFINITE FAMILY OF KNOTS WHOSE MOSAIC NUMBER IS REALIZED IN NON-REDUCED PROJECTIONS
• Cubulated moves and discrete knots

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