Mathematics – Combinatorics
Scientific paper
2007-09-18
Mathematics
Combinatorics
4 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
Let S be a double occurrence word, and let M_S be the word's interlacement matrix, regarded as a matrix over GF(2). Gauss addressed the question of which double occurrence words are realizable by generic closed curves in the plane. We reformulate answers given by Rosenstiehl and by de Fraysseix and Ossona de Mendez to give new graph-theoretic and algebraic characterizations of realizable words. Our algebraic characterization is especially pleasing: S is realizable if and only if there exists a diagonal matrix D_S such that M_S+D_S is idempotent over GF(2).
Shtylla Blerta
Traldi Lorenzo
Zulli Louis
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