Possible tile numbers for space-efficient 7-mosaics with no empty rows or columns

Let KK be a prime knot and let a space-efficient 7-mosaic of KK be a 7-mosaic whose tile number is minimal among mosaics of KK. Suppose that every column or every row of the mosaic is occupied. Possible tile-number conjecture. The tile number of the mosaic can only be one of

27,29,31,32,34,36,37,39,40,41.27, 29, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41.

This restricts the tile numbers that can occur for the specified class of prime-knot 7-mosaics; the source provides no resolution status or further context for whether all listed values occur.

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Aaron Heap and Douglas Knowles, “Tile Number and Space-Efficient Knot Mosaics”, arXiv:1702.06462 (2018).

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