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Knots in Washington XXXIII; Categorification of Knots, Algebras, and Quandles; Quantum Computing
December 2-4, 2011
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU),Mark Kidwell (U.S. Naval Academy and GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (U.Penn), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Cosmetic crossings and genus-one knots
by
Cheryl Balm
Michigan State University
Coauthors: Stefan Friedl, Efstratia Kalfagianni and Mark Powell

We will demonstrate some obstructions to the existence of cosmetic crossings in genus-one knots. As an application, we prove the nugatory crossing conjecture for several genus-one families of knots.

Date received: October 4, 2011

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