On the Qazaqzeh-Chbili-Lowrance conjecture

Shreev Goyal; Joshua Kou; Christine Ruey Shan Lee; Emma Wu; Helen Yang; Aaron Zhou

On the Qazaqzeh-Chbili-Lowrance conjecture

Geometric Topology 2026-01-15 v1

Authors: Shreev Goyal , Joshua Kou , Christine Ruey Shan Lee , Emma Wu , Helen Yang , Aaron Zhou

Abstract

We compute the minimum crossing numbers for a family of Turaev genus 2 links to verify the Qazaqzeh-Chbili-Lowrance conjecture for the family.

Keywords

minimum crossing number Turaev genus link Qazaqzeh-Chbili-Lowrance conjecture

Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.09077,
  title  = {On the Qazaqzeh-Chbili-Lowrance conjecture},
  author = {Shreev Goyal and Joshua Kou and Christine Ruey Shan Lee and Emma Wu and Helen Yang and Aaron Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.09077},
  year   = {2026}
}