Minimizing the presentation of a knot group.
Dugopolski, Mark J. (1985)
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
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Dugopolski, Mark J. (1985)
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
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Francisco González-Acuña (1994)
Revista Matemática Iberoamericana
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A n-knot group is the fundamental group of the complement of an n-sphere smoothly embedded in Sn+2. Artin gave in 1925 ([A]) an algebraic characterization of 1-knot groups. M. Kervaire gave in 1965 ([K]) an algebraic characterization of n-knot groups for n ≥ 3. The problem of characterizing algebraically 2-knot groups has been posed several times (see for example [Su, Problem 4.7]). Ribbon 2-knot groups have been characterized algebraically by Yajima [Y]. ...
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.
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...
Mohnke, Klaus
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Vladimir Chernov, Rustam Sadykov (2016)
Fundamenta Mathematicae
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An elementary stabilization of a Legendrian knot L in the spherical cotangent bundle ST*M of a surface M is a surgery that results in attaching a handle to M along two discs away from the image in M of the projection of the knot L. A virtual Legendrian isotopy is a composition of stabilizations, destabilizations and Legendrian isotopies. A class of virtual Legendrian isotopy is called a virtual Legendrian knot. In contrast to Legendrian knots, virtual Legendrian knots...
S. Jablan, R. Sazdanovic (2003)
Visual Mathematics
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Kitano, Teruaki, Suzuki, Masaaki (2005)
Experimental Mathematics
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Roger Fenn, Denis P. Ilyutko, Louis H. Kauffman, Vassily O. Manturov (2014)
Banach Center Publications
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This paper is a concise introduction to virtual knot theory, coupled with a list of research problems in this field.
Nelson, Sam (2005)
Algebraic & Geometric Topology
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Roger Fenn, Louis H. Kauffman, Vassily O. Manturov (2005)
Fundamenta Mathematicae
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The present paper gives a quick survey of virtual and classical knot theory and presents a list of unsolved problems about virtual knots and links. These are all problems in low-dimensional topology with a special emphasis on virtual knots. In particular, we touch new approaches to knot invariants such as biquandles and Khovanov homology theory. Connections to other geometrical and combinatorial aspects are also discussed.
Denis Petrovich Ilyutko, Vassily Olegovich Manturov, Igor Mikhailovich Nikonov (2014)
Banach Center Publications
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In [12, 15] it was shown that in some knot theories the crucial role is played by parity, i.e. a function on crossings valued in {0,1} and behaving nicely with respect to Reidemeister moves. Any parity allows one to construct functorial mappings from knots to knots, to refine many invariants and to prove minimality theorems for knots. In the present paper, we generalise the notion of parity and construct parities with coefficients from an abelian group rather than ℤ₂ and investigate...