The unique minimal point conjecture for torus knots
The unique minimal point conjecture for torus knots
Let be a torus knot, let denote its smooth nonorientable 4-genus, and let denote the normal Euler number and nonorientable genus of a surface bounded by . A pair of the form is called a minimal point when it is realizable. The unique minimal point conjecture. All torus knots have a single realizable minimal point. In other words, for a torus knot , there is exactly one realizable pair of the form . This conjecture asserts uniqueness of the normal Euler number among realizable surfaces attaining the nonorientable 4-genus, a question concerning the geography of nonorientable surfaces bounded by knots.
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Samantha Allen, “Nonorientable surfaces bounded by knots: a geography problem”, arXiv:2007.14332 (2020).
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