• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.775-791
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• 2013

The twisted torus knots and the primitive/Seifert knots both lie on a genus 2 Heegaard surface of $S^3$. In [5], J. Dean used the twisted torus knots to provide an abundance of examples of primitive/Seifert knots. Also he showed that not all twisted torus knots are primitive/Seifert knots. In this paper, we study the other inclusion. In other words, it shows that not all primitive/Seifert knots are twisted torus knot position. In fact, we give infinitely many primitive/Seifert knots that are not twisted torus knot position.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.60 no.1
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• pp.203-223
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• 2023

A generalized torsion element is an obstruction for a group to admit a bi-ordering. Only a few classes of hyperbolic knots are known to admit such an element in their knot groups. Among twisted torus knots, the known ones have their extra twists on two adjacent strands of torus knots. In this paper, we give several new families of hyperbolic twisted torus knots whose knot groups have generalized torsion. They have extra twists on arbitrarily large numbers of adjacent strands of torus knots.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.57 no.1
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• pp.1-30
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• 2020

In this paper, we classify all twisted torus knots which are middle/hyper doubly Seifert. By the definition of middle/hyper doubly Seifert knots, these knots admit Dehn surgery yielding either Seifert-fibered spaces or graph manifolds at a surface slope. We show that middle/hyper doubly Seifert twisted torus knots admit the latter, that is, non-Seifert-fibered graph manifolds whose decomposing pieces consist of two Seifert-fibered spaces over the disk with two exceptional fibers.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.53 no.1
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• pp.273-301
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• 2016

In this paper, we classify all twisted torus knots which are doubly middle Seifert-fibered. Also we show that all of these knots possibly except a few admit Dehn surgery producing a non-Seifert-fibered graph manifold which consists of two Seifert-fibered spaces over the disk with two exceptional fibers, glued together along their boundaries. This provides another infinite family of knots in $S^3$ admitting Dehn surgery yielding such manifolds as done in [5].

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.61-69
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• 2000

We show that the intersection of two standard torus knots of type (${\lambda}_1$, ${\lambda}_2$) and (${\beta}_1$, ${\beta}_2$) induces an automorphism of the cyclic group ${\mathbb{Z}}_d$, where d is the intersection number of the two torus knots and give an elementary proof of the fact that all non-trivial torus knots are strongly invertiable knots. We also show that the intersection of two standard knots on the 3-torus $S^1{\times}S^1{\times}S^1$ induces an isomorphism of cyclic groups.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.583-594
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• 2009

We give an estimation for the sharp-unknotting number of certain types of torus knots, and decide it for 39 torus knots.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.71-79
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• 2000

We show that the intersection of two standard torus knots of type (${\lambda}_1$, ${\lambda}_2$) and (${\beta}_1$, ${\beta}_2$) induces an automorphism of the cyclic group ${\mathbb{Z}}_d$, where d is the intersection number of the two torus knots and give an elementary proof of the fact that all non-trivial torus knots are strongly invertiable knots. We also show that the intersection of two standard knots on the 3-torus $S^1{\times}S^1{\times}S^1$ induces an isomorphism of cyclic groups.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.591-600
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• 2018

In [4] Miyazaki and Motegi constructed one family of knots in $S^3$ which admits Dehn surgery producing a Seifert-fibered space over $S^2$ with four exceptional fibers. On the other hand, in [3] using doubly hyper Seifert twisted torus knots, the author constructed six families of knots in $S^3$ which admit Dehn surgery yielding a Seifert-fibered space over $S^2$ with four exceptional fibers. It is questioned in [3] whether or not the family of the knots constructed in [4] belongs to one of the six families of the knots in [3]. In this paper, we give the positive answer for this question.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.57 no.2
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• pp.331-360
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• 2017

Unknotting numbers for torus knots and links are well known. In this paper, we present a new approach to determine the position of unknotting number crossing changes in a toric braid such that the closure of the resultant braid is equivalent to the trivial knot or link. Further we give unknotting numbers of more than 600 knots.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.197-211
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• 2011

Every (1, 1)-knot is represented by a 4-tuple of integers (a, b, c, r), where a > 0, b $\geq$ 0, c $\geq$ 0, d = 2a+b+c, $r\;{\in}\;\mathbb{Z}_d$, and it is well known that all 2-bridge knots and torus knots are (1, 1)-knots. In this paper, we describe some conditions for 4-tuples which determine 2-bridge knots and determine all 4-tuples representing any given 2-bridge knot.