Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8903926 Topology and its Applications 2018 15 Pages PDF
Abstract
In a previous work, the first and third authors studied a random knot model for all two-bridge knots using billiard table diagrams. Here we present a closed formula for the distribution of the crossing numbers of such random knots. We also show that the probability of any given knot appearing in this model decays to zero at an exponential rate as the length of the billiard table goes to infinity. This confirms a conjecture from the previous work.
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Geometry and Topology
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