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arXiv 2013-05-15 DOI 10.1142/S0218216513500478 1 views

Unknotting number and genus of 3-braid knots

Lee, Eon-Kyung · Lee, Sang-Jin

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Let u(K) and g(K) denote the unknotting number and the genus of a knot K, respectively. For a 3-braid knot K, we show that u(K)≤ g(K) holds, and that if u(K)=g(K) then K is either a 2-braid knot, a connected sum of two 2-braid knots, the figure-eight knot, a strongly quasipositive knot or its mirror image.

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