Torisu's unknotting-number-one conjecture for three-branched Montesinos knots
Torisu's unknotting-number-one conjecture for three-branched Montesinos knots
Let be a Montesinos knot with three branches. Here denotes the Montesinos knot with the displayed parameters. Torisu's conjecture. The knot has unknotting number one if and only if
where and are non-zero integers, and are coprime, and . This gives a conjectural classification of the three-branched Montesinos knots with unknotting number one; Montesinos knots with four or more branches are known not to have unknotting number one, while the three-branch case remains the subject of this conjectural list.
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Primary source
Duncan McCoy, “Alternating knots with unknotting number one”, arXiv:1312.1278 (2014).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2013). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1109.4560.
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