On upper bounds for toroidal mosaic numbers

  • Authors:
  • Michael Carlisle;Michael S. Laufer

  • Affiliations:
  • Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA 10010;, Jersey City, USA

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information Processing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we construct mosaic representations of knots on the torus, rather than in the plane. This consists of a particular choice of the ambient group $$\mathbb{A }$$, as well as different Definitions of contiguous and suitably connected. We present conditions under which mosaic numbers might decrease by this projection, and present a tool (called waste) to measure this reduction. We show that the order of edge identification in construction of the torus sometimes yields different resultant knots from a given mosaic when reversed. Additionally, in the Appendix we give the catalog of all torus $$2$$-mosaics.