UNKNOTTING NUMBERS OF DIAGRAMS OF A GIVEN NONTRIVIAL KNOT ARE UNBOUNDED

DOI10.1142/S0218216509007361zbMATH Open1180.57016arXiv0805.3174MaRDI QIDQ3398321FDOQ3398321

Kouki Taniyama

Publication date: 28 September 2009

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

unknotting numberknotcrossing numberunknotting number of diagram

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