Non-symmetric ribbon conjecture for the family \mathcal{A}S,TS,T

Let A(S,T)\mathcal{A}(S,T) be the ribbon-knot family considered in the paper, with parameters S,TS,T, and let 12n268 denote the specified knot in the determinant-99 table. A symmetric union presentation is a diagram of a knot that is symmetric with respect to an axis. Non-symmetric ribbon conjecture for A(S,T)\mathcal{A}(S,T). With the exception of 12n268 and the knots with S=1,0S=-1,0, the knots A(S,T)\mathcal{A}(S,T) do not have symmetric union presentations. This conjecture is supported by the knots with 13 crossings in the table; the corresponding question remains open for the other members of the family.

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Christoph Lamm, “The search for non-symmetric ribbon knots”, arXiv:1710.06909 (2019).

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