Genus Ranges of Chord Diagrams
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Keywords
Chord diagrams, genus ranges, double-occurrence words
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216515500224
Abstract
A chord diagram consists of a circle, called the backbone, with line segments, called chords, whose endpoints are attached to distinct points on the circle. The genus of a chord diagram is the genus of the orientable surface obtained by thickening the backbone to an annulus and attaching bands to the inner boundary circle at the ends of each chord. Variations of this construction are considered here, where bands are possibly attached to the outer boundary circle of the annulus. The genus range of a chord diagram is the genus values over all such variations of surfaces thus obtained from a given chord diagram. Genus ranges of chord diagrams for a fixed number of chords are studied. Integer intervals that can be, and those that cannot be, realized as genus ranges are investigated. Computer calculations are presented, and play a key role in discovering and proving the properties of genus ranges.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, v. 24, issue 4, art. 1550022
Scholar Commons Citation
Burns, Jonathan; Jonoska, Nataša; and Saito, Masahico, "Genus Ranges of Chord Diagrams" (2015). Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications. 111.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mth_facpub/111
