Unknotting sequences for torus knots
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Publication:3400946
DOI10.1017/S0305004109990156zbMATH Open1181.57004arXiv0809.0183MaRDI QIDQ3400946FDOQ3400946
Authors: Sebastian Baader 
Publication date: 28 January 2010
Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)
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.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0183
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