The crossing number of composite knots

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTP028zbMATH Open1190.57003arXiv0805.4706OpenAlexW3106014470MaRDI QIDQ3402138FDOQ3402138

Authors: Marc Lackenby 

Publication date: 2 February 2010

Published in: Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is a very old conjecture that the crossing number of knots is additive under connected sum. In other words, if K#K' is the connected sum of knots K and K', then does the equality c(K#K') = c(K) + c(K') hold? We prove that c(K#K') is at most c(K) + c(K') and at least (c(K) + c(K'))/152.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4706

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zbMATH Keywords

normal surfacecrossing numberconnected sum

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