SPLITTING NUMBERS OF LINKS
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- Title
- SPLITTING NUMBERS OF LINKS
- Authors
- Cha, Jae Choon; Friedl, Stefan; Powell, Mark
- Date Issued
- 2017-08
- Publisher
- CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
- Abstract
- The splitting number of a link is the minimal number of crossing changes between different components required, on any diagram, to convert it to a split link. We introduce new techniques to compute the splitting number, involving covering links and Alexander invariants. As an application, we completely determine the splitting numbers of links with nine or fewer crossings. Also, with these techniques, we either reprove or improve upon the lower bounds for splitting numbers of links computed by Batson and Seed using Khovanov homology.
- Keywords
- UNLINKING; HOMOLOGY
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/50781
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0013091516000420
- ISSN
- 0013-0915
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE EDINBURGH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, vol. 60, no. 3, page. 587 - 614, 2017-08
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