Signature of rotors

DOI10.4064/FM184-0-6MaRDI QIDQ4667567zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Makiko Ishiwata, Józef H. Przytycki, Akira Yasuhara, Mieczysław K. Dabkowski

Publication date 20 April 2005

Published in Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407183

zbMATH Keywords

Conway polynomialGoeritz formlinkmutationrotorSeifert formsignature

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Abstract: Rotors were introduced in Graph Theory by W.Tutte. The concept was adapted to Knot Theory as a generalization of mutation by Anstee, Przytycki and Rolfsen in 1987. In this paper we show that Tristram-Levine signature is preserved by orientation-preserving rotations. Moreover, we show that any link invariant obtained from the characteristic polynomial of Goeritz matrix, including Murasugi signature, is not changed by rotations. In 2001, P. Traczyk showed that the Conway polynomials of any pair of orientation-preserving rotants coincide. But it was still an open problem if an orientation-reversing rotation preserves Conway polynomial. We show that there is a pair of orientation-reversing rotants with different Conway polynomials. This provides a negative solution to the problem.

Review text

Suppose that for a link diagram \(D\), there exists an \(n\)-gon \(R\) such that \(R\cap D\) consists of \(n\) arcs and possibly circles, and that \(R\cap D\) is invariant under the \(2\pi/n\)-rotation. A rotant of \(D\) is a reflection of \(R\cap D\) along an axis keeping the outside of \(R\) fixed, see \textit{R. P. Anstee, J. H. Przytycki} and \textit{D. Rolfsen} [Topology Appl. 32, No.3, 237--249 (1989; Zbl 0638.57006)]. Note that all reflections give the same link, and that each side of \(R\) intersects \(D\) in two points. A rotant is called orientation-preserving (orientation-reversing, respectively) if the two arcs near these points are antiparallel (parallel, respectively). In the paper under review the authors prove that the characteristic polynomial of a Goeritz matrix does not alter by taking rotants and that a Hermitian matrix defined by a Seifert matrix does not alter by taking oriantation-preserving rotants. Here a Seifert matrix \(A\) and a complex number \(\xi\) define a Hermitian matrix \(\xi A+ \overline{\xi}A^{t}\), where \(\overline{\xi}\) denotes the complex conjugate and \(A^{t}\) is the transposed matrix of \(A\). As corollaries they show that the Murasugi signature for unoriented links is not changed by taking rotants and that the Tristram-Levine signature for oriented links is not changed by taking orientation-preserving rotants. Moreover they show that there exists a pair of orientation-reversing rotants with different Conway polynomial. Note that P.~Traczyk proved that the Conway polynomial does not alter by taking orientation-preserving rotants [\textit{P. Traczyk}, Geom. Dedicata 110, 49--61 (2005; Zbl 1081.57007)].

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