The crossing-number bound for 14-stick knots in the simple hexagonal lattice

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Let [K][K] be a knot type, let ssh[K]s_{sh}[K] denote its stick number in the simple hexagonal lattice, and let c[K]c[K] denote its crossing number. Crossing-number bound conjecture. For a knot type [K][K] such that ssh[K]≤14s_{sh}[K] \leq 14, then c[K]≤5c[K] \leq 5. This would bound the crossing number of every knot type admitting a simple-hexagonal-lattice presentation with at most 14 sticks; the source says that approaching the claim likely requires improved lower bounds for 6-crossing knots in the cubic lattice, and gives no resolution.

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Yueheng Bao, Ari Benveniste, Marion Campisi, Nicholas Cazet, Ansel Goh, Jiantong Liu and Ethan Sherman, “Bounds in simple hexagonal lattice and classification of 11-stick knots”, arXiv:2211.00687 (2023).

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