Kinoshita–Terasaka knot

Kinoshita–Terasaka knot
Crossing no.11
Genus2
Hyperbolic volume11.2191
Thistlethwaite11n42
Other
prime, prime, slice

In knot theory, the Kinoshita–Terasaka knot is a particular prime knot with 11 crossings.[1] It is named after Japanese mathematicians Shinichi Kinoshita and Hidetaka Terasaka, who wrote about it in 1957.[2] The Kinoshita–Terasaka knot has a variety of interesting mathematical properties.[3] It is related by mutation to the Conway knot,[4] with which it shares a Jones polynomial. It has the same Alexander polynomial as the unknot.[5]

References

  1. ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Conway's Knot". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  2. ^ Kinoshita, S.; Terasaka, H. (1957). "On Unions of Knots". Osaka Math J. 9: 131–153.
  3. ^ Tillmann, Stephan (June 2000). "On the Kinoshita-Terasaka knot and generalised Conway mutation" (PDF). Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications. 09 (4): 557–575. doi:10.1142/S0218216500000311. ISSN 0218-2165.
  4. ^ Chmutov, S.V. (2007). "Mutant Knots" (PDF). people.math.osu.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-12.
  5. ^ Boi, Luciano (2 November 2005). Geometries of Nature, Living Systems and Human Cognition: New Interactions of Mathematics with Natural Sciences and Humanities. ISBN 9789814479455.