A Murasugi decomposition for achiral alternating links (Q2497101)

A typical example of an achiral knot is the connected sum of a knot and its mirror image, but there are achiral knots that can not be obtained in this way. The authors prove that all alternating achiral links are the Murasugi sum, in a strong sense, of a link and its mirror image. The strong Murasugi sum is defined in terms of the theory of atoms and molecules for alternating links, see the authors' paper [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 137, No. 1, 95-108 (2004; Zbl 1057.57007)].