On minimality of two-bridge knots
Abstract
A knot is called minimal if its knot group admits epimorphisms onto the knot groups of only the trivial knot and itself. In this paper, we determine which two-bridge knot $\mathfrak{b}(p,q)$ is minimal where $q \leq 6$ or $p \leq 100$.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2016
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1609.02244
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1609.02244
- Bibcode:
- 2016arXiv160902244N
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Geometric Topology;
- 57M25;
- 57M27
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 2 figures