English

Mutant knots and intersection graphs

Geometric Topology 2016-01-20 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove that if a finite order knot invariant does not distinguish mutant knots, then the corresponding weight system depends on the intersection graph of a chord diagram rather than on the diagram itself. The converse statement is easy and well known. We discuss relationship between our results and certain Lie algebra weight systems.

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@article{arxiv.0704.1313,
  title  = {Mutant knots and intersection graphs},
  author = {S. V. Chmutov and S. K. Lando},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1313},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages, many figures