Algorithmically detecting the bridge number of hyperbolic knots

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Publication:6207043

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Authors: Alexander Coward Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 5 October 2007

Abstract: We exhibit an algorithm to determine the bridge number of a hyperbolic knot in the 3-sphere. The proof uses adaptations of almost normal surface theory for compact surfaces with boundary in ideally triangulated knot exteriors.













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