The canonical genus for Whitehead doubles of a family of alternating knots

Abstract: For any given integer

r g e q 1

and a quasitoric braid

s i g m a_{1}^{(- 1)^{r} e p s i l o n})^{3}

with

e p s i l o n = p m 1

, we prove that the maximum degree in

z

of the HOMFLYPT polynomial

of the doubled link

of the closure

is equal to

6 r - 1

. As an application, we give a family

m a t h c a l K^{3}

of alternating knots, including

(2, n)

torus knots, 2-bridge knots and alternating pretzel knots as its subfamilies, such that the minimal crossing number of any alternating knot in

m a t h c a l K^{3}

coincides with the canonical genus of its Whitehead double. Consequently, we give a new family

m a t h c a l K^{3}

of alternating knots for which Tripp's conjecture holds.

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