The delunification process and minimal diagrams (Q492265): Difference between revisions

This paper looks at lune-free link diagrams, introducing ``grey sets'' to facilitate the brute force calculation of coloring invariants. An abstract summarizes its remarkable results, the introduction surveys related work, and a section on algorithms nicely explains the essential structure of most tabled knots -- an excellent exposition for general readers, deserving a bit of bibliographic enhancement. Reference [\textit{A. Caudron}, Publ. Math. Orsay 82--04, 336 p. (1982; Zbl 0505.57002)], a 1982 Caudron preprint, was later expanded into Orsay Prepublication 89-39 (1989), with excerpts from a prior version available on the A002863 page of N. J. A. Sloane's OEIS website, and the reference to Conway's use of polyhedra ``to produce the complete tables of knots up through ten crossings'' seems to overlook the identically over-complete Nineteenth Century work of \textit{C. N. Little} [Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 39, 771--778 (1900; JFM 31.0481.02)]. (CAVEAT: many of Conway's and Little's published tables are either incomplete, or redundant, or both.)