The 2n diagrams attain the upper bound on unknots

A free 2n2n knot is the free knot diagram referred to in the source, with n+2n+2 crossings. A minimal free knot diagram is one with the minimum crossing number for its knot. 2n2n-unknot upper-bound conjecture. The free 2n2n knots realize the upper bound on unknots for minimal free knot diagrams with n+2n+2 crossings. The source derives the resultant unknot probabilities for this family and uses them to motivate the proposed extremal bound; the conjecture itself is not proved in the supplied text.

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Andrew Ducharme and Emily Peters, “Combinatorial Random Knots”, arXiv:1912.06286 (2020).

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