Construction of non-alternating knots
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We investigate the behaviour of Rasmussen's invariant under the sharp operation on knots and obtain a lower bound for the sharp unknotting number. This bound leads us to an interesting move that transforms arbitrary knots into non-alternating knots.
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@article{arxiv.math/0602092,
title = {Construction of non-alternating knots},
author = {Sebastian Baader},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0602092},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, one remark added