• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.1139-1148
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• 2015

For any alternating knot, it is known that the double branched cover of the 3-sphere branched over the knot is an L-space. We show that the three-fold cyclic branched cover is also an L-space for any genus one alternating knot.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.539-545
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• 2014

We show that roots of log-concave Alexander knot polynomials are dense in C. This in particular implies that the log-concavity and Hoste's conjecture on the Alexander polynomial of alternating knots are (essentially) independent.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.1305-1321
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• 2015

We dene new link invariants which are called the quasitoric braid index and the cyclic length of a link and show that the quasitoric braid index of link with k components is the product of k and the cycle length of link. Also, we give bounds of Gordian distance between the (p,q)-torus knot and the closure of a braid of two specific quasitoric braids which are called an alternating quasitoric braid and a blockwise alternating quasitoric braid. We give a method of modication which makes a quasitoric presentation from its braid presentation for a knot with braid index 3. By using a quasitoric presentation of $10_{139}$ and $10_{124}$, we can prove that $u(10_{139})=4$ and $d^{\times}(10_{124},K(3,13))=8$.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.58 no.4
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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].