Hypercube diagrams for knots, links, and knotted tori

For a knot K the cube number is a knot invariant defined to be the smallest n for which there is a cube diagram of size n for K. Examples of knots for which the cube number detects chirality are presented. There is also a Legendrian version of this invariant called the Legendrian cube number. We wil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCarty, Ben
Other Authors: Baldridge, Scott
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2012
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-05252012-130050/