Nullification number and flyping conjecture
In analogy to the unknotting number of a knot or link, in the present paper a nullification number is introduced and discussed. For a planar projection of a link, this is the minimal number of ``nullifications of crossings which are needed to arrive at a trivial link. For minimal alternating projections this number is easy to compute and depends only on the link. The alternating links with nullification number 1, 2 and \(n- 1\) are classified where \(n\) denotes the number of crossings of the link. It follows that these links have a unique alternating projection, thus confirming the ``Tait flyping conjecture for these links. Note that recently a complete solution of this conjecture has been announced by \textit{W. W. Menasco} and \textit{M. B. Thistlethwaite} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 25, No. 2, 403-412 (1991; Zbl 0745.57002)] stating that alternating projections of links are basically unique.
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- On the visibility of the +achirality of alternating knots
- Coherent band-Gordian distances between knots and links with up to seven crossings
- Link projections and flypes
- Nullification of torus knots and links
- Nullification numbers of knots with up to 10 crossings
- The Tait flyping conjecture
- Nullification of knots and links
- The classification of alternating links
- \(SH(3)\)-Gordian distances between knots with up to seven crossings
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