Two strand twisting

Authors Lambert A'Campo, Sebastian Baader, Levi Ryffel

Publication date 14 September 2022

Abstract: We prove that fibred knots cannot be untied with

-moves, for all

k g e q 2

. More generally, we give an upper bound on the number of two strand twist operations that allow to untie a knot with non-trivial HOMFLY polynomial, in terms of the minimal crossing number, and the braid index. As a by-product, we prove that the braid index of a two-bridge knot cannot be lowered by applying

t_{2 k}

-moves, for all but finitely many

k i n m a t h b b N

.

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