Crosscap number of a knot

DOI10.2140/PJM.1995.171.261MaRDI QIDQ1918397zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hitoshi Murakami, Akira Yasuhara

Publication date 7 November 1996

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1995.171.261

zbMATH Keywords

connected sumcrosscap numbersfirst Betti numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Review text

\textit{B. E. Clark} [Int. J. Math. Math. Sci. 1, 113-124 (1978; Zbl 0386.57003)] defined the crosscap number of a knot to be the minimum number of the first Betti numbers of non-orientable surfaces bounding it. In this paper, we investigate the crosscap numbers of knots. We show that the crosscap number of \(7_4\) is equal to 3. This gives an affirmative answer to a question given by Clark. In general, the crosscap number is not additive under the connected sum. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the crosscap number to be additive under the connected sum.

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