Crossing number of an alternating knot and canonical genus of its Whitehead double

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2020.107516MaRDI QIDQ820659zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hee Jeong Jang, Sang Youl Lee

Publication date 27 September 2021

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0594

zbMATH Keywords

crossing numberalternating knotWhitehead doublecanonical genusTripp's conjecture3-braid knotMorton's inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: A conjecture proposed by J. Tripp in 2002 states that the crossing number of any knot coincides with the canonical genus of its Whitehead double. In the meantime, it has been established that this conjecture is true for a large class of alternating knots including $(2,n)$ torus knots, $2$-bridge knots, algebraic alternating knots, and alternating pretzel knots. In this paper, we prove that the conjecture is not true for any alternating $3$-braid knot which is the connected sum of two torus knots of type $(2,m)$ and $(2,n)$. This results in a new modified conjecture that the crossing number of any prime knot coincides with the canonical genus of its Whitehead double. We also give a new large class of prime alternating knots satisfying the conjecture, including all prime alternating $3$-braid knots.

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