Intrinsically Linked Graphs with Knotted Components
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We construct a graph G such that any embedding of G into R^{3} contains a nonsplit link of two components, where at least one of the components is a nontrivial knot. Further, for any m < n we produce a graph H so that every embedding of H contains a nonsplit n component link, where at least m of the components are nontrivial knots. We then turn our attention to complete graphs and show that for any given n, every embedding of a large enough complete graph contains a two component link whose linking number is a nonzero multiple of n.
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@article{arxiv.0705.2026,
title = {Intrinsically Linked Graphs with Knotted Components},
author = {Thomas Fleming},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.2026},
year = {2007}
}