Kinoshita–Terasaka knot
Appearance
Kinoshita–Terasaka knot | |
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Crossing no. | 11 |
Genus | 2 |
Hyperbolic volume | 11.2191 |
Thistlethwaite | 11n42 |
Other | |
prime, prime, slice |

In knot theory, the Kinoshita–Terasaka knot is a particular prime knot with 11 crossings.[1] It is named after Japanese mathematicians Shinichi Kinoshita and Hidetaka Terasaka, who wrote about it in 1957.[2] The Kinoshita–Terasaka knot has a variety of interesting mathematical properties.[3] It is related by mutation to the Conway knot,[4] with which it shares a Jones polynomial. It has the same Alexander polynomial as the unknot.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Conway's Knot". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ Kinoshita, S.; Terasaka, H. (1957). "On Unions of Knots". Osaka Math J. 9: 131–153.
- ^ Tillmann, Stephan (June 2000). "On the Kinoshita-Terasaka knot and generalised Conway mutation" (PDF). Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications. 09 (4): 557–575. doi:10.1142/S0218216500000311. ISSN 0218-2165.
- ^ Chmutov, S.V. (2007). "Mutant Knots" (PDF). people.math.osu.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-12.
- ^ Boi, Luciano (2 November 2005). Geometries of Nature, Living Systems and Human Cognition: New Interactions of Mathematics with Natural Sciences and Humanities. ISBN 9789814479455.