Petal Projections, Knot Colorings and Determinants
Geometric Topology
2022-08-10 v2
Abstract
An \"{u}bercrossing diagram is a knot diagram with only one crossing that may involve more than two strands of the knot. Such a diagram without any nested loops is called a petal projection. Every knot has a petal projection from which the knot can be recovered using a permutation that represents strand heights. Using this permutation, we give an algorithm that determines the -colorability and the determinants of knots from their petal projections. In particular, we compute the determinants of all prime knots with crossing number less than from their petal permutations.
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@article{arxiv.2004.00148,
title = {Petal Projections, Knot Colorings and Determinants},
author = {Allison Henrich and Robin Truax},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.00148},
year = {2022}
}
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27 pages, 19 figures, 11 tables