• 대한수학회지
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.967-976
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• 2021

We obtain the list of prime knots with arc index 12 up to 16 crossings and their minimal grid diagrams. This is a continuation of the works [5] and [8] in which Cromwell matrices were generated to obtain minimal grid diagrams of all prime knots up to arc index 11. We provide minimal grid diagrams of the prime alternating knots with arc index 12. They are the 10 crossing prime alternating knots. The full list of 19,513 prime knots of arc index 12 up to 16 crossings and their minimal grid diagrams can be found in the arXiv [6].

• 호남수학학술지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.157-165
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• 2010

Silver and Whitten proved that every knot in $S^3$ is invertibly concordant to a hyperbolic knot by a series of Nakanishi's construction. We prove that every knot in $S^3$ is invertibly concordant to a nonhyperbolic prime knot by a simple one step satellite construction.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.115-128
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• 2015

Plumbing surfaces of links were introduced to study the geometry of the complement of the links. A basket surface is one of these plumbing surfaces and it can be presented by two sequential presentations, the first sequence is the flat plumbing basket code found by Furihata, Hirasawa and Kobayashi and the second sequence presents the number of the full twists for each of annuli. The minimum number of plumbings to obtain a basket surface of a knot is defined to be the basket number of the given knot. In present article, we first find a classification theorem about the basket number of knots. We use these sequential presentations and the classification theorem to find the basket number of all prime knots whose crossing number is 7 or less except two knots $7_1$ and $7_5$.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제59권4호
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• pp.869-877
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• 2022

In this paper, we consider the knot complement problem for not null-homologous knots in homology lens spaces. Let M be a homology lens space with H₁(M; ℤ) ≅ ℤ_p and K a not null-homologous knot in M. We show that, K is determined by its complement if M is non-hyperbolic, K is hyperbolic, and p is a prime greater than 7, or, if M is actually a lens space L(p, q) and K represents a generator of H₁(L(p, q)).

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.1017-1045
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• 2016

Using a combination of calculational and theoretical approaches, we establish results that relate two knot invariants, the Alexander polynomial, and the number of quandle colourings using any finite linear Alexander quandle. Given such a quandle, specified by two coprime integers n and m, the number of colourings of a knot diagram is given by counting the solutions of a matrix equation of the form AX = 0 mod n, where A is the m-dependent colouring matrix. We devised an algorithm to reduce A to echelon form, and applied this to the colouring matrices for all prime knots with up to 10 crossings, finding just three distinct reduced types. For two of these types, both upper triangular, we found general formulae for the number of colourings. This enables us to prove that in some cases the number of such quandle colourings cannot distinguish knots with the same Alexander polynomial, whilst in other cases knots with the same Alexander polynomial can be distinguished by colourings with a specific quandle. When two knots have different Alexander polynomials, and their reduced colouring matrices are upper triangular, we find a specific quandle for which we prove that it distinguishes them by colourings.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.475-486
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• 2001

In this paper we give a relationship among the Minkowski units, for all odd prime number including $\infty$, of 2-periodic knot is $S^3$, its factor knot, and the 2-component link consisting of the factor knot and the set of fixed points of the periodic action.

• 대한수학회논문집
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.193-200
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• 2017

Given a pair p, q of relative prime positive integers, we have uniquely determined positive integers x, y, u and v such that vx-uy = 1, p = x + y and q = u + v. Using this property, we show that$${\sum\limits_{1{\leq}i{\leq}x,1{\leq}j{\leq}v}}\;{t^{(i-1)q+(j-1)p}\;-\;{\sum\limits_{1{\leq}k{\leq}y,1{\leq}l{\leq}u}}\;t^{1+(k-1)q+(l-1)p}$$ is the Alexander polynomial ${\Delta}_{p,q}(t)$ of a torus knot t(p, q). Hence the number $N_{p,q}$ of non-zero terms of ${\Delta}_{p,q}(t)$ is equal to vx + uy = 2vx - 1. Owing to well known results in knot Floer homology theory, our expanding formula of the Alexander polynomial of a torus knot provides a method of algorithmically determining the total rank of its knot Floer homology or equivalently the complexity of its (1,1)-diagram. In particular we prove (see Corollary 2.8); Let q be a positive integer> 1 and let k be a positive integer. Then we have $$\begin{array}{rccl}(1)&N_{kq}+1,q&=&2k(q-1)+1\\(2)&N_{kq}+q-1,q&=&2(k+1)(q-1)-1\\(3)&N_{kq}+2,q&=&{\frac{1}{2}}k(q^2-1)+q\\(4)&N_{kq}+q-2,q&=&{\frac{1}{2}}(k+1)(q^2-1)-q\end{array}$$ where we further assume q is odd in formula (3) and (4). Consequently we confirm that the complexities of (1,1)-diagrams of torus knots of type t(kq + 2, q) and t(kq + q - 2, q) in [5] agree with $N_{kq+2,q}$ and $N_{kq+q-2,q}$ respectively.