OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
A Legendrian n-mosaic is an n X n array of the 10 tiles given in Figure 5 of Pezzimenti and Pandey. These tiles represent part of a Legendrian curve in the front projection.
A Legendrian n-mosaic is suitably connected iff the connection points of each tile coincide with those of all contiguous tiles. Note that the n-mosaic consisting of all blank tiles is vacuously suitably connected even though it does not represent a link.
LINKS
Margaret Kipe, Rust
Seungsang Oh, Kyungpyo Hong, Ho Lee, and Hwa Jeong Lee, Quantum knots and the number of knot mosaics, arXiv: 1412.4460 [math.GT], 2014.
S. Pezzimenti and A. Pandey, Geography of Legendrian knot mosaics, Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, 31 (2022), article no. 2250002, 1-22.
EXAMPLE
For n = 2 there are exactly a(2) = 2 suitably connected Legendrian 2-mosaics, namely the empty mosaic and the Legendrian unknot with maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant.
MATHEMATICA
x[0] = o[0] = {{1}};
x[n_] := ArrayFlatten[{{x[n - 1], o[n - 1]}, {o[n - 1], x[n - 1]}}];
o[n_] := ArrayFlatten[{{o[n - 1], x[n - 1]}, {x[n - 1], 3*o[n - 1]}}];
legendrianSquare[n_] := If[n > 1, 2*Total[MatrixPower[x[n - 2] + o[n - 2], n - 2], 2], 1];
PROG
(Rust) // See Margaret Kipe link
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,changed
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
a(7)-a(11) from Luc Ta, Aug 20 2024
a(12) from Alois P. Heinz, Aug 20 2024
STATUS
approved