Torisu's unknotting-number-one conjecture for Montesinos knots
Torisu's unknotting-number-one conjecture for Montesinos knots
Let be a Montesinos knot of length three. Write for the Montesinos-knot notation used in the source, where , , , , , and are non-zero integers, and are coprime, and .
Torisu's conjecture. The knot satisfies if and only if
Torisu proved this equivalence when the unknotting operation is realised in a standard diagram, but the unrestricted statement is presented as a conjecture; it would follow from the Seifert fibering conjecture described below.
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Primary source
Dorothy Buck, Julian Gibbons and Eric Staron, “Pretzel Knots with Unknotting Number One”, arXiv:1109.4560 (2012).
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