Figure Eight Knot
المؤلف:
Bailey, D. H.; Borwein, J. M.; Calkin, N. J.; Girgensohn, R.; Luke, D. R.; and Moll, V. H
المصدر:
Experimental Mathematics in Action.Wellesley, MA: A K Peters, 2007.
الجزء والصفحة:
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Figure Eight Knot
The figure eight knot, also known as the Flemish knot and savoy knot, is the unique prime knot of four crossings 04-001. It has braid word
.
The figure eight knot is implemented in the Wolfram Language as KnotData["FigureEight"].
It is a 2-embeddable knot, and is amphichiral as well as invertible. It has Arf invariant 1. It is not a slice knot (Rolfsen 1976, p. 224).
The Alexander polynomial
, BLM/Ho polynomial
, Conway polynomial
, HOMFLY polynomial
, Jones polynomial
, and Kauffman polynomial F
of the figure eight knot are
There are no other knots on 10 or fewer crossings sharing the same Alexander polynomial, BLM/Ho polynomial, bracket polynomial, HOMFLY polynomial, Jones polynomial, or Kauffman polynomial F.
The figure eight knot has knot group
 |
(7)
|
(Rolfsen 1976, p. 58).

Helaman Ferguson's sculpture "Figure-Eight Complement II" illustrates the knot complement of the figure eight knot (Borwein and Bailey 2003, pp. 54-55, color plate IV, and front cover; Bailey et al. 2007, p. 37). Furthermore, Ferguson has carved the BBP-type formula for the hyperbolic volume of the knot complement (discussed below) on both figure eight knot complement sculptures commissioned by the Clay Mathematics Institute (Borwein and Bailey 2003, p. 56; Bailey et al. 2007, pp. 36-38).
The hyperbolic volume of the knot complement of the figure eight knot is approximately given by
 |
(8)
|
(OEIS A091518). Exact expressions are given by the infinite sums
where
is a harmonic number.
has a variety of BBP-type formulas including
with additional identities for coefficients of
of the form
(E. W. Weisstein, Sep. 30, 2007). Higher-order identities are
![V=(2sqrt(3))/(243)sum_(k=0)^infty1/(729^k)[(243)/((12k+1)^2)-(243)/((12k+2)^2)-(324)/((12k+3)^2)-(81)/((12k+4)^2)+(27)/((12k+5)^2)-9/((12k+7)^2)+9/((12k+8)^2)
+(12)/((12k+9)^2)+3/((12k+10)^2)-1/((12k+11)^2)]
=(2sqrt(3))/(177147)sum_(k=0)^infty1/(531441^k)[(177147)/((24k+1)^2)-(177147)/((24k+2)^2)-(236196)/((24k+3)^2)-(59049)/((24k+4)^2)+(19683)/((24k+5)^2)-(6561)/((24k+7)^2)+(6561)/((24k+8)^2)+(8748)/((24k+9)^2)+(2187)/((24k+10)^2)-(729)/((24k+11)^2)+(243)/((24k+13)^2)-(243)/((24k+14)^2)-(324)/((24k+15)^2)-(81)/((24k+16)^2)+(27)/((24k+17)^2)-9/((24k+19)^2)+9/((24k+20)^2)+(12)/((24k+21)^2)+3/((24k+22)^2)
-1/((24k+23)^2)]](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/equations/FigureEightKnot/NumberedEquation3.gif) |
(19)
|
(E. W. Weisstein, Aug. 11, 2008).
Additional classes of identities are given by
with additional identities for coefficients of
of the form
(E. W. Weisstein, Sep. 30, 2007). Another BBP-type formula is given by
is also given by the integrals
and the analytic expressions
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