Unknotting genus one knots

DOI10.4171/CMH/227zbMATH Open1223.57008arXiv0809.4142MaRDI QIDQ633006FDOQ633006

Authors: Alexander Coward, Marc Lackenby 

Publication date: 31 March 2011

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For any knot with genus one and unknotting number one, other than the figure-eight knot, we prove that there is exactly one way to unknot it by means of a crossing change. In the case of the figure-eight knot, we prove that there are precisely two unknotting crossing changes. The proof uses sutured manifold theory and an analysis of the arc complex of the once-punctured torus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4142

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zbMATH Keywords

genusknotunknottingcrossing change

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