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Neighbors of knots in the Gordian graph

Geometric Topology 2016-06-13 v2

Abstract

We show that every knot is one crossing change away from a knot of arbitrarily high bridge number and arbitrarily high bridge distance.

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@article{arxiv.1505.00201,
  title  = {Neighbors of knots in the Gordian graph},
  author = {Ryan Blair and Marion Campisi and Jesse Johnson and Scott A. Taylor and Maggy Tomova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.00201},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Accepted by American Mathematical Monthly. New version incorporates referee comments