Non-sharpness of the Morton-Franks-Williams inequality
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We give conditions on a knot on which the Morton-Franks-Williams inequality is not sharp. As applications, we show infinitely many examples of knots where the inequality is not sharp and also prove (by giving examples) that the deficit of the inequality can be arbitrarily large.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0509169,
title = {Non-sharpness of the Morton-Franks-Williams inequality},
author = {Keiko Kawamuro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0509169},
year = {2007}
}