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Knotting probability of an arc diagram

Akio Kawauchi

Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan

E-mail Address: kawauchi@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216520420043Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)

This article is part of the issue:

Special Issue: Proceedings of 6th Russian — Chinese Conference on Knot Theory and Related Topics (Part 1)
Guest Editors: N. Abrosimov, Z. Cheng, L. H. Kauffman, A. Vesnin and Z. Yang

Abstract

The knotting probability of an arc diagram is defined as the quadruplet of four kinds of finner knotting probabilities which are invariant under a reasonable deformation containing an isomorphism on an arc diagram. In a separated paper, it is shown that every oriented spatial arc admits four kinds of unique arc diagrams up to isomorphisms determined from the spatial arc and the projection, so that the knotting probability of a spatial arc is defined. The definition of the knotting probability of an arc diagram uses the fact that every arc diagram induces a unique chord diagram representing a ribbon 2-knot. Then the knotting probability of an arc diagram is set to measure how many nontrivial ribbon genus 2 surface-knots occur from the chord diagram induced from the arc diagram. The conditions for an arc diagram with the knotting probability 0 and for an arc diagram with the knotting probability 1 are given together with some other properties and some examples.

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AMSC: 57M25, 57Q45

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