Abstract
A surface-knot is a closed oriented surface smoothly embedded in 4-space and a surface-knot diagram is a projected image of a surface-knot under the orthogonal projection in 3-space with crossing nformation. Every surface-knot diagram induces a rectangular-cell complex. In this paper, we introduce a covering diagram over a surface-knot diagram. the covering map induces a covering of the rectangular-cell complexes. As an application, a lower bound of triple point numbers for a family of surface-knots is obtained.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1850042 |
Journal | Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 1 2018 |
Keywords
- covering diagram
- pseudo-cycle
- Surface-knot
- triple point
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Algebra and Number Theory