UNKNOTTING NUMBERS OF DIAGRAMS OF A GIVEN NONTRIVIAL KNOT ARE UNBOUNDED

DOI10.1142/S0218216509007361MaRDI QIDQ3398321zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kouki Taniyama

Publication date 28 September 2009

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3174

zbMATH Keywords

crossing numberknotunknotting numberunknotting number of diagram

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Abstract: We show that for any nontrivial knot $K$ and any natural number $n$ there is a diagram $D$ of $K$ such that the unknotting number of $D$ is greater than or equal to $n$. It is well known that twice the unknotting number of $K$ is less than or equal to the crossing number of $K$ minus one. We show that the equality holds only when $K$ is a $(2,p)$-torus knot.

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