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On minimality of two-bridge knots

Geometric Topology 2016-09-09 v1

Abstract

A knot is called minimal if its knot group admits epimorphisms onto the knot groups of only the trivial knot and itself. In this paper, we determine which two-bridge knot b(p,q)\mathfrak{b}(p,q) is minimal where q6q \leq 6 or p100p \leq 100.

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@article{arxiv.1609.02244,
  title  = {On minimality of two-bridge knots},
  author = {Fumikazu Nagasato and Masaaki Suzuki and Anh T. Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02244},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures

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