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Piecewise-linear pseudodiagrams
There are 2^n possible resolutions of a smooth pseudodiagram with n
precrossings. If we consider piecewise-linear (PL) pseudodiagrams and
resolutions that themselves are PL, certain resolutions of the pseudodiagram
may not exist in three-space. We investigate this situation and its impact on
the weighted resolution set of PL pseudodiagrams as well as introduce a concept
specific to PL pseudodiagrams, the forcing number. Our main result classifies
the PL shadows whose weighted resolution sets differ from the weighted
resolution set that would exist in the smooth case.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures; V2 fixes a minor typo in both statement of Cor.
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On link diagrams that are minimal with respect to Reidemeister moves I and II
In this paper, a link diagram is said to be minimal if no Reidemeister move I
or II can be applied to it to reduce the number of crossings. We show that for
an arbitrary diagram D of a link without a trivial split component, a minimal
diagram obtained by applying Reidemeister moves I and II to D is unique. The
proof also shows that the number of crossings of such a minimal diagram is
unique for any diagram of any link. As the unknot admits infinitely many
non-trivial minimal diagrams, we see that every link has infinitely many
minimal diagrams, by considering the connected sums with such diagrams. We show
that for a link without a trivial split component, an arbitrary Reidemeister
move III either does not change the associated minimal diagram or can be
reduced to a special type of a move up to Reidemeister moves I and II
Avoided level crossing spectroscopy with dressed matter waves
We devise a method for probing resonances of macroscopic matter waves in
shaken optical lattices by monitoring their response to slow parameter changes,
and show that such resonances can be disabled by particular choices of the
driving amplitude. The theoretical analysis of this scheme reveals far-reaching
analogies between dressed atoms and time-periodically forced matter waves.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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