Knots of genus one or on the number of alternating knots of given genus

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-01-05823-3zbMath0971.57012MaRDI QIDQ2718983

Alexander Stoimenow

Publication date: 14 May 2001

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Vassiliev invariantsunknotting numberSeifert surfacesalternating knotsgenus of a knotpositive knotsGauß diagrams

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