Link genus and the Conway moves (Q908545)
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Link genus and the Conway moves (English)
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1989
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The authors study the relation between the degrees of the Conway potential functions and the maximal Euler characteristic of all Seifert surfaces for a link. Two consequences of their work are: (a) a lower bound for the height of the Conway skein diagram; (b) characterization of doubled knots as those with genus and unknotting number equal to 1.
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Conway potential
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Seifert surfaces
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link
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skein diagram
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unknotting number
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