Alternating knots with unknotting number one

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2016.09.033MaRDI QIDQ340422zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Duncan McCoy

Publication date 14 November 2016

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1278

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn surgeryunknotting numberalternating knotbranched double coverchangemaker latticeGoeritz matrixMontesinos trick

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: We prove that if an alternating knot has unknotting number one, then there exists an unknotting crossing in any alternating diagram. This is done by showing that the obstruction to unknotting number one developed by Greene in his work on alternating 3-braid knots is sufficient to identify all unknotting number one alternating knots. As a consequence, we also get a converse to the Montesinos trick: an alternating knot has unknotting number one if its branched double cover arises as half-integer surgery on a knot in $S^3$. We also reprove a characterisation of almost-alternating diagrams of the unknot originally due to Tsukamoto.

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