{ "id": "1211.2553", "version": "v1", "published": "2012-11-12T10:38:00.000Z", "updated": "2012-11-12T10:38:00.000Z", "title": "A correspondence between complexes and knots", "authors": [ "Moshe Cohen" ], "comment": "Developed during a summer school on \"Discrete Morse Theory and Commutative Algebra\" from July 18th through August 1st, 2012 at the Institut Mittag-Leffler (the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) organized by Bruno Benedetti and Alexander Engstr\\\"{o}m. http://www.mittag-leffler.se/summer2012/summerschools/", "categories": [ "math.GT", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "In recent work the author investigates perfect matchings of a bipartite graph obtained from a knot diagram and demonstrates that these correspond to discrete Morse functions on a 2-complex for the 2-sphere. This relationship is expounded below for the opposite audience: those who may be unfamiliar with knots.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2012-11-12T10:38:00.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57M20", "57M25", "57R70", "05C70" ], "keywords": [ "correspondence", "discrete morse functions", "perfect matchings", "bipartite graph", "knot diagram" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1211.2553C" } } }