Unknotting sequences for torus knots

DOI10.1017/S0305004109990156MaRDI QIDQ3400946zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sebastian Baader

Publication date 28 January 2010

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0183

zbMATH Keywords

unknotting numberslice genusquasipositive knots

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Abstract: The unknotting number of a knot is bounded from below by its slice genus. It is a well-known fact that the genera and unknotting numbers of torus knots coincide. In this note we characterize quasipositive knots for which the genus bound is sharp: the slice genus of a quasipositive knot equals its unknotting number, if and only if the given knot appears in an unknotting sequence of a torus knot.

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