Mosaic number conjecture for the knots 616_{1} and 636_{3}

For a positive integer nn, an nn-mosaic is an n×nn\times n mosaic-tile board representing a link or knot, and the mosaic number of a knot is the smallest natural number mm for which it has a knot mm-mosaic. The knots 616_{1} and 636_{3} denote the standard six-crossing knots in knot tables. Mosaic number conjecture for 616_{1} and 636_{3}.

The mosaic number of 61 and 63 is 6.\text{The mosaic number of }6_{1}\text{ and }6_{3}\text{ is }6.

The claim concerns the unresolved determination of mosaic numbers for knots with at most ten crossings; the source gives no evidence of a resolution.

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Hugh Howards and Andrew Kobin, “Crossing Number Bound in Knot Mosaics”, arXiv:1405.7683 (2018).

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