Infinitely many odd-superbridge knots conjecture
Infinitely many odd-superbridge knots conjecture
A knot has superbridge index , the minimum, over all knots isotopic to , of the maximum bridge number over unit directions. A knot with superbridge index is called an -superbridge knot.
Odd-superbridge knots conjecture. There are infinitely many -superbridge knots for any positive integer .
Nontrivial knots have superbridge index at least , and the paper establishes that only finitely many -superbridge knots exist, while infinitely many even-superbridge knots are known. This conjecture concerns the existence of infinitely many knots at every higher odd superbridge index.
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Choon Bae Jeon and Gyo Taek Jin, “There are only finitely many 3-superbridge knots”, arXiv:math/9902082 (2001).
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