A Murasugi decomposition for achiral alternating links

DOI10.2140/PJM.2005.222.317MaRDI QIDQ2497101zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Hongler, Claude Weber

Publication date 1 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.2005.222.317

zbMATH Keywords

achiral linkalternating linkflype conjectureinvertible linkMurasugi decomposition

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Review text

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)].

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