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Unknotting numbers of quasipositive knots

โœ Scribed by Toshifumi Tanaka

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
371 KB
Volume
88
Category
Article
ISSN
0166-8641

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โœฆ Synopsis

By using a result of L. Rudolph concerning the four-genus of a classical knot, we calculate the unknotting numbers of knots. We give an example of an infinite family of two-bridge knots which have arbitrary unknotting numbers which are equal to their three-genera. We also calculate the unknotting numbers of 10145, 10154 and 101h1.

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