The Gram determinant for plane curves

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2010.3.149MaRDI QIDQ992545zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Józef H. Przytycki, Xiaoqi Zhu

Publication date 9 September 2010

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4649

zbMATH Keywords

Gram determinantsnoncrossing partitionsplanar curvesTemperley-Liebchromatic joins

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Combinatorial aspects of matrices (incidence, Hadamard, etc.) (05B20) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: We investigate the Gram determinant of the bilinear form based on curves in a planar surface, with a focus on the disk with two holes. We prove that the determinant based on $n-1$ curves divides the determinant based on $n$ curves. Motivated by the work on Gram determinants based on curves in a disk and curves in an annulus (Temperley-Lieb algebra of type $A$ and $B$, respectively), we calculate several examples of the Gram determinant based on curves in a disk with two holes and advance conjectures on the complete factorization of Gram determinants.

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