A specious unlinking strategy

Friedl, Stefan and Nagel, Matthias and Powell, Mark (2014) A specious unlinking strategy. PERIODICA MATHEMATICA HUNGARICA, 69 (2). pp. 207-210. ISSN 0031-5303, 1588-2829

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Abstract

We show that the following unlinking strategy does not always yield an optimal sequence of crossing changes: first split the link with the minimal number of crossing changes, and then unknot the resulting components.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: NUMBER; LINKS; Link; Crossing change; Unlinking number; Splitting number
Subjects: 500 Science > 510 Mathematics
Divisions: Mathematics > Prof. Dr. Stefan Friedl
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 07 Aug 2019 11:01
Last Modified: 07 Aug 2019 11:01
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/9165

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