ON THE KINKINESS OF CLOSED BRAIDS

DOI10.1142/S0218216502002177zbMATH Open1024.57012arXivmath/0105224MaRDI QIDQ4414962FDOQ4414962

Authors: Christian Bohr 

Publication date: 10 August 2003

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

Abstract: In this note, we prove a lower bound for the positive kinkiness of a closed braid which we then use to derive an estimate for the positive kinkiness of a link in terms of its Seifert system. As an application, we show that certain pretzel knots cannot be unknotted using only positive crossing changes. We also describe a subgroup of infinite rank in the smooth knot concordance group of which no element has a strongly quasipositive representative.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105224

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zbMATH Keywords

kinkinessunknotting numbersquasipositive knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Cites Work

• Quasipositivity as an obstruction to sliceness
• Algebraic functions and closed braids
• The genus of embedded surfaces in the projective plane
• The minimal number of Seifert circles equals the braid index of a link

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• ON THE Δ-UNKNOTTING NUMBER OF WHITEHEAD DOUBLES OF KNOTS
• Signature and concordance of positive knots
• Casson towers and filtrations of the smooth knot concordance group

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