Jang–Lee prime-knot conjecture for Whitehead doubles
Jang–Lee prime-knot conjecture for Whitehead doubles
Let be a prime knot, let denote its crossing number, and let be its Whitehead double. Jang–Lee's conjecture. The crossing number of any prime knot coincides with the canonical genus of its Whitehead double:
This modifies Tripp's conjecture after the discovery of composite counterexamples. The source proves the corresponding equality for all prime alternating -braid knots and for several larger families, but leaves the assertion for arbitrary prime knots open.
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Primary source
Hee Jeong Jang and Sang Youl Lee, “Crossing number of an alternating knot and canonical genus of its Whitehead double”, arXiv:1409.0594 (2015).
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