Complementary regions of knot and link diagrams

DOI10.1007/S00026-011-0109-2zbMATH Open1236.57011OpenAlexW2010247425MaRDI QIDQ659650FDOQ659650

Authors Reiko Shinjo, Kokoro Tanaka, Colin Adams

Publication date 24 January 2012

Published in Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2558

zbMATH Keywords

knot diagram4-valent graphcomplementary region

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: An increasing sequence of integers is said to be universal for knots and links if every knot and link has a projection to the sphere such that the number of edges of each complementary face of the projection comes from the given sequence. This paper is an investigation into which sequences, either finite or infinite, are universal. We also consider how to minimize the number of odd-sided faces for projections of knots and links with n components.

Recommendations

• From doodles to diagrams to knots
• Delta diagrams
• Universal sequences of spatial graphs
• UNKNOTTING NUMBERS OF DIAGRAMS OF A GIVEN NONTRIVIAL KNOT ARE UNBOUNDED
• Universal knot diagrams

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1802839 (Why is no real title available?)
• A spanning tree expansion of the Jones polynomial
• Arkadenfadendarstellung von Knoten und eine neue Darstellung der Knotengruppe
• BOUNDING DISKS TO A SPATIAL GRAPH
• Jones polynomials and classical conjectures in knot theory
• LUNE-FREE KNOT GRAPHS
• Realizations with a cut-through Eulerian circuit
• Some analogues of Eberhard's theorem on convex polytopes
• State models and the Jones polynomial
• The first 1,701,936 knots

Cited in

(22)

• Families of not perfectly straight knots
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2086736 (Why is no real title available?)
• A note on the link sequences
• Loop numbers of knots
• The reductivity of spherical curves
• Semimeander crossing number of knots and related invariants
• Delta diagrams
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1802839 (Why is no real title available?)
• The reductivity of spherical curves. II: 4-gons
• Bisected vertex leveling of plane graphs: braid index, arc index and delta diagrams
• Circle immersions that can be divided into two arc embeddings
• Circle arrangements of link projections
• Lower bounds for the warping degree of a knot projection
• Meander diagrams of knots and spatial graphs: proofs of generalized Jablan-Radović conjectures
• Isolated regions of a link projection
• Universal sequences of spatial graphs
• (1, 2) AND WEAK (1, 3) HOMOTOPIES ON KNOT PROJECTIONS
• Universal knot diagrams
• Random meander model for links
• From doodles to diagrams to knots
• Random colorings in manifolds
• Axis systems of link projections

This page was built for publication: Complementary regions of knot and link diagrams

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q659650)