Title	Computing the braid index using only a knot diagram and knots where the braid index equals the bridge index
Creator	Ernst, Claus
Publisher	Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery
Date Issued	2019-03-28T14:40
Description	We talk about how to read the braid index of certain families of alternating knots from a minimal knot diagram. In addition we talk about a class of knots where the braid index equals the bridge index. These knots seem to have particular physical properties as demonstrated by several experiments. They undergo a periodic motion when sedimenting in a viscous fluid as knotted deformable closed chains, they also seem to achieve a circular minimum as elastic knots when their bending energy (curvature) is minimized.
Extent	23.0 minutes
Subject	Mathematics; Biology and other natural sciences; Manifolds and cell complexes; Mathematical biology
Type	Moving Image
File Format	video/mp4
Language	eng
Notes	Author affiliation: Western Kentucky University
Series	BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos (Banff, Alta)
Date Available	2019-09-25
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0380999
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/71772
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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