Classical invariants of spiral knots
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| author | Blackwell, Sarah Das, Ashish Mayer, Sydney Moyar, Luke Quraishi, Faisal Stees, Ryan |
| author_facet | Blackwell, Sarah Das, Ashish Mayer, Sydney Moyar, Luke Quraishi, Faisal Stees, Ryan |
| contents | Torus knots are an important family of knots about which much is understood; invariants of torus knots often exhibit nice formulas, making them convenient and fundamental building blocks for examples in knot theory. Spiral knots, defined and first studied by Brothers et al., are a braid-theoretic generalization of torus knots, but comparatively not much is known about this broader family of knots. We give a general recursive formula for the Alexander polynomials of spiral knots, and from this we derive several properties of spiral knots, including a simple genus formula. Additionally, we investigate the consequences these results have on classification questions. |
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| spellingShingle | Classical invariants of spiral knots Blackwell, Sarah Das, Ashish Mayer, Sydney Moyar, Luke Quraishi, Faisal Stees, Ryan Geometric Topology 57K10 Torus knots are an important family of knots about which much is understood; invariants of torus knots often exhibit nice formulas, making them convenient and fundamental building blocks for examples in knot theory. Spiral knots, defined and first studied by Brothers et al., are a braid-theoretic generalization of torus knots, but comparatively not much is known about this broader family of knots. We give a general recursive formula for the Alexander polynomials of spiral knots, and from this we derive several properties of spiral knots, including a simple genus formula. Additionally, we investigate the consequences these results have on classification questions. |
| title | Classical invariants of spiral knots |
| topic | Geometric Topology 57K10 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17889 |