Stick number of spatial graphs
Geometric Topology
2018-06-27 v1
Abstract
For a nontrivial knot , Negami found an upper bound on the stick number in terms of its crossing number which is . Later, Huh and Oh utilized the arc index to present a more precise upper bound . Furthermore, Kim, No and Oh found an upper bound on the equilateral stick number as follows; . As a sequel to this research program, we similarly define the stick number and the equilateral stick number of a spatial graph , and present their upper bounds as follows; where and are the number of edges and vertices of , respectively, is the number of bouquet cut-components, and is the number of non-splittable components.
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@article{arxiv.1806.09716,
title = {Stick number of spatial graphs},
author = {Minjung Lee and Sungjong No and Seungsang Oh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.09716},
year = {2018}
}