An Unknotting Sequence for Torus Knots

2013/12/30 by Siwach, Vikash, Prabhakar, Madeti
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.7679

Abstract

In this paper, the authors give an unknotting sequence for torus knots and also provide unknotting numbers of _n14₁₇₁₉₁, _n14₁₄₂₇₄, _n14₁₈₃₅₁, _n14₂₄₄₉₈ and some other knots from the knot table of Hoste-Thistlethwite.

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