Uniqueness conjecture for unknotting crossings of alternating knots
Uniqueness conjecture for unknotting crossings of alternating knots
Let ) be an alternating knot with unknotting number , and let be an alternating diagram of . An unknotting crossing is a crossing whose change produces the unknot; two such crossings have the same sign when their crossing signs agree. A clasp knot is the knot type intended by the source's terminology.
Uniqueness conjecture. If contains more than one unknotting crossing of the same sign, then is a clasp knot.
The conjecture is motivated by the observation that, in all known examples, the isomorphism from the lattice associated with an alternating diagram to a change-maker lattice is essentially unique. Its resolution status is not specified in the supplied text.
Sources & referencesView supporting material
Primary source
Duncan McCoy, “Alternating knots with unknotting number one”, arXiv:1312.1278 (2014).
Progress summary
Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.
Solutions 0
Sign in to submit a solution.
No solutions have been posted yet.