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Nonfibered knots and representation shifts

Daniel S. Silver, Susan G. Williams (2009)

Banach Center Publications

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A conjecture of [swTAMS] states that a knot is nonfibered if and only if its infinite cyclic cover has uncountably many finite covers. We prove the conjecture for a class of knots that includes all knots of genus 1, using techniques from symbolic dynamics.

On the Signatures of Torus Knots

Maciej Borodzik, Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz (2010)

Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mathematics

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We study properties of the signature function of the torus knot T p , q . First we provide a very elementary proof of the formula for the integral of the signature over the circle. We also obtain a closed formula for the Tristram-Levine signature of a torus knot in terms of Dedekind sums.

Every knot is a billiard knot

P. V. Koseleff, D. Pecker (2014)

Banach Center Publications

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We show that every knot can be realized as a billiard trajectory in a convex prism. This proves a conjecture of Jones and Przytycki.

Some non-trivial PL knots whose complements are homotopy circles

Greg Friedman (2007)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We show that there exist non-trivial piecewise linear (PL) knots with isolated singularities S n - 2 ⊂ S ⁿ , n ≥ 5, whose complements have the homotopy type of a circle. This is in contrast to the case of smooth, PL locally flat, and topological locally flat knots, for which it is known that if the complement has the homotopy type of a circle, then the knot is trivial.

Unknotting number and knot diagram.

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.

Minimal degree sequence for 2-bridge knots

Prabhakar Madeti, Rama Mishra (2006)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We discuss polynomial representations for 2-bridge knots and determine the minimal degree sequence for all such knots. We apply the connection between rational tangles and 2-bridge knots.

Lissajous knots and billiard knots

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.