Gaps between consecutive untwisting numbers

Publication date 16 December 2020

Abstract: For

p g e q 1

one can define a generalization of the unknotting number

t u_{p}

called the

p

th untwisting number which counts the number of null-homologous twists on at most

2 p

strands required to convert the knot to the unknot. We show that for any

p g e q 2

the difference between the consecutive untwisting numbers

t u_{p - 1}

and

t u_{p}

can be arbitrarily large. We also show that torus knots exhibit arbitrarily large gaps between

t u_{1}

and

t u_{2}

.

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