On the minimum number of colors for knots

DOI10.1016/j.aam.2006.11.006zbMath1151.57008arXivmath/0512088OpenAlexW1988338990MaRDI QIDQ2474262

Pedro Lopes, Louis H. Kauffman

Publication date: 5 March 2008

Published in: Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0512088

zbMATH Keywords

knotscoloringscolorsTeneva transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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