A specious unlinking strategy

DOI10.1007/S10998-014-0063-YMaRDI QIDQ484579zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Friedl, Matthias Nagel, Mark Powell

Publication date 7 January 2015

Published in Periodica Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2052, http://dro.dur.ac.uk/23057/1/23057.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

linksplitting numberunlinking numbercrossing change

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract: We show that the following unlinking strategy does not always yield an optimal sequence of crossing changes: first split the link with the minimal number of crossing changes, and then unknot the resulting components.

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