A specious unlinking strategy
Geometric Topology
2014-10-09 v1
Abstract
We show that the following unlinking strategy does not always yield an optimal sequence of crossing changes: first split the link with the minimal number of crossing changes, and then unknot the resulting components.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.2052,
title = {A specious unlinking strategy},
author = {Stefan Friedl and Matthias Nagel and Mark Powell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.2052},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
4 pages, to be published by Periodica Mathematica Hungarica