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Boundary slope diameter and crossing number of 2-bridge knots

Thomas W. Mattman, Gabriel Maybrun, Kristin Robinson

math.GTarXiv:math/0510496

Abstract

We prove that for 2-bridge knots, the diameter, D, of the set of boundary slopes is twice the crossing number, c. This constitutes partial verification of a conjecture that, for all knots in S3, D is at most 2c.

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