Mosaic number of knots

Hwa Jeong Lee, Kyungpyo Hong, Ho Lee, Seungsang Oh

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    Abstract

    Lomonaco and Kauffman developed knot mosaics to give a definition of a quantum knot system. This definition is intended to represent an actual physical quantum system. A knot n-mosaic is an n × n matrix of 11 kinds of specific mosaic tiles representing a knot or a link. The mosaic number m(K) of a knot K is the smallest integer n for which K is representable as a knot n-mosaic. In this paper, we establish an upper bound on the mosaic number of a knot or a link K in terms of the crossing number c(K). Let K be a nontrivial knot or a non-split link except the Hopf link. Then m(K) ≤ c(K) + 1. Moreover if K is prime and non-alternating except 633 link, then m(K) ≤ c(K) - 1.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number1450069
    JournalJournal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications
    Volume23
    Issue number13
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014 Nov 22

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    The corresponding author (Seungsang Oh) was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP) (No. 2011-0021795). This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2011-0027989).

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2014 World Scientific Publishing Company.

    Keywords

    • Quantum knot
    • knot mosaic
    • mosaic number

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Algebra and Number Theory

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