{ "id": "0805.2042", "version": "v3", "published": "2008-05-14T12:09:11.000Z", "updated": "2009-12-10T11:09:27.000Z", "title": "Braid ordering and knot genus", "authors": [ "Tetsuya Ito" ], "comment": "10 pages, 6 figures, the main result is improved", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "The genus of knots is a one of the fundamental invariant and can be seen as a complexity of knots. In this paper, we give a lower bound of genus using Dehornoy floor, which is a measure of complexity of braids in terms of braid ordering.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2009-12-10T11:09:27.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57M25" ], "keywords": [ "knot genus", "braid ordering", "dehornoy floor", "fundamental invariant" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008arXiv0805.2042I" } } }