Equality of ribbon numbers for symmetric ribbon knots of ribbon number two
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.
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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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