VIRTUAL BRIDGE NUMBER ONE KNOTS

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Abstract: We define the virtual bridge number

v b (K)

and the virtual unknotting number

v u (K)

invariants for virtual knots. For ordinary knots

K

they are closely related to the bridge number

b (K)

and the unknotting number

u (K)

and we have

v u (K) l e q u (K), v b (K) l e q b (K) .

There are no ordinary knots

K

with

b (K) = 1.

We show there are infinitely many homotopy classes of virtual knots each of which contains infinitely many isotopy classes of

K

with

v b (K) = 1.

In fact for each

i i n N

there exists

K

virtually homotopic (but not virtually isotopic) to the unknot with

v b (K) = 1

and

v u (K) = i .

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