The minimum crossing number of essential tangles

DOI10.1142/S0218216514500540MaRDI QIDQ2934373zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors João Miguel Nogueira, António Salgueiro

Publication date 12 December 2014

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07268

zbMATH Keywords

crossing numberessential tanglestangle classification

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Abstract: In this paper we compute the sharp lower bounds for the crossing number of $n$-string $k$-loop essential tangles. For essential tangles with only string components, we characterise the ones with the minimum crossing number for a given number of components, both when the tangle has knotted strings or only unknotted strings.

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