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Crossing numbers and rotation numbers of cycles in a plane immersed graph

Geometric Topology 2022-09-02 v3

Abstract

For any generic immersion of a Petersen graph into a plane, the number of crossing points between two edges of distance one is odd. The sum of the crossing numbers of all 55-cycles is odd. The sum of the rotation numbers of all 55-cycles is even. We show analogous results for 66-cycles, 88-cycles and 99-cycles. For any Legendrian spatial embedding of a Petersen graph, there exists a 55-cycle that is not an unknot with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number, and the sum of all Thurston-Bennequin numbers of the cycles is 77 times the sum of all Thurston-Bennequin numbers of the 55-cycles. We show analogous results for a Heawood graph. We also show some other results for some graphs. We characterize abstract graphs that has a generic immersion into a plane whose all cycles have rotation number 00.

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@article{arxiv.2205.01013,
  title  = {Crossing numbers and rotation numbers of cycles in a plane immersed graph},
  author = {Ayumu Inoue and Naoki Kimura and Ryo Nikkuni and Kouki Taniyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.01013},
  year   = {2022}
}

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22 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables