Construction and decomposition of knots as Murasugi sums of Seifert surfaces
| Autor: | Able, Jared, Hirasawa, Mikami |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | A fixed knot $K$ acts via Murasugi sum on the space $\mathcal{S}$ of isotopy classes of knots. This operation endows $\mathcal{S}$ with a directed graph structure denoted by $M\kern-1pt SG(K)$. We show that any given family of knots in $M\kern-1pt SG(K)$ has the structure of a bi-directed complete graph, which is not the case if we restrict the complexity of Murasugi sums. For that purpose, we show that any knot is a Murasugi sum of any two knots, and we give lower and upper bounds for the minimal complexity of Murasugi sum to obtain $K_3$ by $K_1$ and $K_2$. As an application, we show that given any three knots, there is a braid for one knot which splits along a string into braids for the other two knots. Comment: 15 pages, 15 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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