Strict inequality between the 13-crossing and 5-crossing numbers
Strict inequality between the 13-crossing and 5-crossing numbers
Let be a knot, and let denote its -crossing number, the minimum number of -fold crossings in a projection of . Strict inequality conjecture. For all knots such that , one has
This conjecture predicts that, except for knots with , the 13-crossing number is strictly smaller than the 5-crossing number. Its resolution is not specified in the supplied source material.
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Primary source
Nicholas Hagedorn, “Strict Inequalities for the n-crossing Number”, arXiv:2212.12330 (2022).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2105.10921.
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