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A lower bound on the average genus of a 2-bridge knot

Mathematics Department, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USA

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216523500554Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Experimental data from Dunfield et al. using random grid diagrams suggest that the genus of a knot grows linearly with respect to the crossing number. Using billiard table diagrams of Chebyshev knots developed by Koseleff and Pecker and a random model of 2-bridge knots via these diagrams developed by the author with Krishnan and then with Even-Zohar and Krishnan, we introduce a further-truncated model of all 2-bridge knots of a given crossing number, almost all counted twice. We present a convenient way to count Seifert circles in this model and use this to compute a lower bound for the average Seifert genus of a 2-bridge knot of a given crossing number.

Keywords:

Rational knot

AMSC: 57K10, 05A05

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