Danceability, Directed by Braid Index
Sol Addison, Nancy Scherich, and Lila Snodgrass

Proceedings of Bridges 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 459–462
Short Papers

Abstract

Schaffer introduced the concept of danceability of a knot diagram. In this paper, we expand upon Schaffer’s ideas to create a danceability knot invariant and show that this invariant is bounded above by the braid index.

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