Natural properties of the trunk of a knot

Abstract: The trunk of a knot in

S^{3}

, defined by Makoto Ozawa, is a measure of geometric complexity similar to the bridge number or width of a knot. We prove that for any two knots

K_{1}

and

K_{2}

, we have

, confirming a conjecture of Ozawa. Another conjecture of Ozawa asserts that any width-minimizing embedding of a knot

K

also minimizes the trunk of

K

. We produce several families of probable counterexamples to this conjecture.

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