A specious unlinking strategy

Friedl, Stefan; Nagel, Matthias; Powell, Mark

doi:10.1007/s10998-014-0063-y

A specious unlinking strategy

Friedl, Stefan; Nagel, Matthias; Powell, Mark

Authors

Stefan Friedl

Matthias Nagel

Mark Powell

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.

Citation

Friedl, S., Nagel, M., & Powell, M. (2014). A specious unlinking strategy. Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 69(2), 207-210. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10998-014-0063-y

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Oct 16, 2014
Publication Date	Dec 1, 2014
Deposit Date	Oct 3, 2017
Publicly Available Date	Oct 4, 2017
Journal	Periodica Mathematica Hungarica
Print ISSN	0031-5303
Electronic ISSN	1588-2829
Publisher	Akadémiai Kiadó
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	69
Issue	2
Pages	207-210
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10998-014-0063-y
Related Public URLs	https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2052