ALTERNATING AUGMENTATIONS OF LINKS

DOI10.1142/S0218216509006835zbMATH Open1169.57007arXivmath/0608405MaRDI QIDQ3608723FDOQ3608723

Authors: Ryan Blair 

Publication date: 5 March 2009

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that one can interweave an unknot into any non-alternating connected projection of a link so that the resulting augmented projection is alternating.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608405

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic linkalternating link

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Cites Work

• Closed incompressible surfaces in alternating knot and link complements
• An upper bound for the breadth of the Jones polynomial

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• Adequate links in thickened surfaces and the generalized Tait conjectures
• Twist number and the alternating volume of knots
• Almost alternating links
• Alternating links have representativity 2
• The link volume of 3-manifolds
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