The number of strings on essential tangle decompositions of a knot can be unbounded (Q341748)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6653749
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6653749 |
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The number of strings on essential tangle decompositions of a knot can be unbounded (English)
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17 November 2016
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Surprisingly, the author constructs ``an infinite collection of knots with the property that any knot in this family has \(n\)-string essential tangle decompositions for arbitrarily high \(n\)''; crediting Cameron Gordon for ``comments along the development of this paper''.
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essential tangle decomposition
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meridional essential surface
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0.8362531065940857
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0.7934018969535828
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0.77820885181427
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0.7747082114219666
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