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Torus knots obtained by negatively twisting torus knots

Sangyop Lee

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5953-2894

Department of Mathematics, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 06974, Korea

E-mail Address: sylee@cau.ac.kr

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Thiago de Paiva

School of Mathematics, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia

E-mail Address: thiago.depaivasouza@monash.edu

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216521500802Cited by:4 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Twisted torus knots are torus knots with some full twists added along some number of adjacent strands. There are infinitely many known examples of twisted torus knots which are actually torus knots. We give eight more infinite families of such twisted torus knots with a single negative twist.

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