Knots with exactly 10 sticks

DOI10.1142/S021821652050011XzbMATH Open1439.57005arXiv1909.06947MaRDI QIDQ5111772FDOQ5111772

Authors: Thomas D. Eddy, Nathaniel Morrison, Clayton Shonkwiler, Ryan Blair 

Publication date: 27 May 2020

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

Abstract: We prove that the knots $13n_{592}$ and $15n_{41,127}$ both have stick number 10. These are the first non-torus prime knots with more than 9 crossings for which the exact stick number is known.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06947

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zbMATH Keywords

knotsbridge indexstick numbersuperbridge indexrandom polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Knot theory (57K10)

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Cited In (4)

• New computations of the superbridge index
• New superbridge index calculations from non-minimal realizations
• The stick number of rail arcs
• New Stick Number Bounds from Random Sampling of Confined Polygons

Uses Software

• SnapPy
• KnotInfo
• stick-knot-gen
• GitHub

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