ON THE KINKINESS OF CLOSED BRAIDS

DOI10.1142/S0218216502002177MaRDI QIDQ4414962zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christian Bohr

Publication date 10 August 2003

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

kinkinessquasipositive knotsunknotting numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

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.

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