Knots on a positive template have a bounded number of prime factors.
Sullivan, Michael C. (2005)
Algebraic & Geometric Topology
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Sullivan, Michael C. (2005)
Algebraic & Geometric Topology
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Xingru Zhang (1991)
Fundamenta Mathematicae
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Vaughan Jones, Józef Przytycki (1998)
Banach Center Publications
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We show that Lissajous knots are equivalent to billiard knots in a cube. We consider also knots in general 3-dimensional billiard tables. We analyse symmetry of knots in billiard tables and show in particular that the Alexander polynomial of a Lissajous knot is a square modulo 2.
Monica Meissen (1998)
Banach Center Publications
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The minimal number of edges required to form a knot or link of type K is the edge number of K, and is denoted e(K). When knots are drawn with edges, they are appropriately called piecewise-linear or PL knots. This paper presents some edge number results for PL knots. Included are illustrations of and integer coordinates for the vertices of several prime PL knots.
Alexander Stoimenow (2003)
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze
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Using the recent Gauß diagram formulas for Vassiliev invariants of Polyak-Viro-Fiedler and combining these formulas with the Bennequin inequality, we prove several inequalities for positive knots relating their Vassiliev invariants, genus and degrees of the Jones polynomial. As a consequence, we prove that for any of the polynomials of Alexander/Conway, Jones, HOMFLY, Brandt-Lickorish-Millett-Ho and Kauffman there are only finitely many positive knots with the same polynomial and no...
Motegi, Kimihiko, Song, Hyun-Jong (2005)
Algebraic & Geometric Topology
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Livingston, Charles (2004)
Geometry & Topology
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Szabó, Zoltán, Ozváth, Peter (2003)
Geometry & Topology
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Yasutaka Nakanishi (1996)
Revista Matemática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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This note is a continuation of a former paper, where we have discussed the unknotting number of knots with respect to knot diagrams. We will show that for every minimum-crossing knot-diagram among all unknotting-number-one two-bridge knot there exist crossings whose exchange yields the trivial knot, if the third Tait conjecture is true.
Richard Randell (1998)
Banach Center Publications
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We study numerical and polynomial invariants of piecewise-linear knots, with the goal of better understanding the space of all knots and links. For knots with small numbers of edges we are able to find limits on polynomial or Vassiliev invariants sufficient to determine an exact list of realizable knots. We thus obtain the minimal edge number for all knots with six or fewer crossings. For example, the only knot requiring exactly seven edges is the figure-8 knot.