Equality of ribbon numbers for symmetric ribbon knots of ribbon number two
Let be a symmetric ribbon knot. Its ribbon number is the minimum number of ribbon singularities in any ribbon disk bounded by , and its symmetric ribbon number is the minimum number of ribbon singularities in any symmetric ribbon disk bounded by .
Ribbon-number-two conjecture. If , then
All examples in the authors' data with have , so the conjecture isolates the first case in which the two invariants might necessarily agree.
References
Primary source
Sajid Raihan Akash, Eric Corrado, Bishop Placke, Sam Sanketh, Nick Starns, Anok Timothy and Alexander Zupan, “Symmetric ribbon numbers of low-complexity knots”, arXiv:2606.02390 (2026).
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