Timeline for Can knot diagrams be monotonically simplified using under moves?
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| Mar 7, 2016 at 0:25 | comment | added | Joel Hass | I found the comment by Conway related to this question at: groups.google.com/forum/print/msg/geometry.research/qsVMnaoCa9c/… | |
| Dec 3, 2014 at 17:09 | comment | added | Bruno Martelli | As suggested by Marco, this knot can be fully simplified via level moves, see zanellati.it/knot/Satellite_knot.pdf I just got this information from the author of the program who is following this page, so drawings of more complicated unknots are welcome :-) It would be interesting to try one more additional doubling as suggested by Joel... | |
| Dec 3, 2014 at 5:04 | history | edited | Joel Hass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2014 at 5:05 | comment | added | Dylan Thurston | You can do some level moves to move the clasp around, then do the over or under move that was there before. | |
| Nov 28, 2014 at 21:15 | history | edited | Joel Hass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2014 at 15:47 | comment | added | Marco Golla | I think there's a simplifying move, and I'll try my best to describe it. Take the inner strand running along the right-hand, bottom-most corner, and drag it below the three crossings on the right. This should eliminate two crossings while gaining only one (with the "twin" strand). | |
| Nov 28, 2014 at 14:45 | history | edited | Joel Hass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2014 at 14:33 | history | answered | Joel Hass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |