Three thousand obstructions to knotless embedding
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2026-07-01 v1
摘要
We present a list of 3028 obstructions to knotless embedding. We survey recent work in this area including: 1) A bibliography of graphs proven to be intrinsically knotted without relying on computers; 2) An updated listing of obstructions in families including two new large families; 3) Connections with the Colin de Verdi\`ere's invariant including a new obstruction with ; and 4) Connectivity of obstructions and their structure near vertices of degree three or four. We address questions raised in earlier work, (re)state several conjectures, and propose new questions.
引用
@article{arxiv.2607.01414,
title = {Three thousand obstructions to knotless embedding},
author = {Thomas W Mattman and Andrei Pavelescu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.01414},
year = {2026}
}
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9 pages, no figures, 2 tables