The unknotting-number conjecture for the family Kn\mathcal{K}_n

For each integer n1n\geq 1, let Kn\mathcal{K}_n be the knot represented by the positive diagram DnD_n in the paper's infinite family. The family unknotting-number conjecture.

u(Kn)=2+7n.u(\mathcal{K}_n)=2+7n.

The preceding proposition proves only the bounds 2+5nu(Kn)2+7n2+5n\leq u(\mathcal{K}_n)\leq 2+7n. Thus the conjecture would determine the exact unknotting number for every knot in this family and extend the proposed counterexample at n=1n=1.

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Marc Kegel, Lukas Lewark, Naageswaran Manikandan, Filip Misev, Leo Mousseau and Marithania Silvero, “On unknotting fibered positive knots and braids”, arXiv:2312.07339 (2024).

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