Knots with exactly 10 sticks

DOI10.1142/S021821652050011XMaRDI QIDQ5111772zbMATH OpenFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

knotsbridge indexstick numbersuperbridge indexrandom polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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

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