Tait’s conjectures and odd crossing number amphicheiral knots
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Abstract:
We give a brief historical overview of the Tait conjectures, made 120 years ago in the course of his pioneering work in tabulating the simplest knots, and solved a century later using the Jones polynomial. We announce the solution, again based on a substantial study of the Jones polynomial, of one (possibly his last remaining) problem of Tait, with the construction of amphicheiral knots of almost all odd crossing numbers. An application to the non-triviality problem for the Jones polynomial is also outlined.References
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Additional Information
- A. Stoimenow
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Email: stoimeno@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp
- Received by editor(s): May 30, 2007
- Published electronically: January 22, 2008
- Additional Notes: Financial support by the 21st Century COE Program is acknowledged.
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 285-291
- MSC (2000): Primary 57M25; Secondary 01A55, 01A60
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01196-8
- MathSciNet review: 2383306