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Conference on Knot Theory and Its Applications to Physics and Quantum Computing; 60th birthday of Jozef H. Przytycki
January 6-9, 2015
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UTD) Tobias Hagge (UTD) Valentina S. Harizanov (GWU) Viswanath Ramakrishna (UTD) Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU) Adam S. Sikora (SUNYUB)

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Geometrically and diagrammatically maximal knots
by
Ilya Kofman
College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Coauthors: Abhijit Champanerkar, Jessica Purcell

The ratio of volume to crossing number of a hyperbolic knot is bounded above by the volume of a regular ideal octahedron, and a similar bound is conjectured for the knot determinant per crossing. We show that many families of alternating knots and links simultaneously maximize both ratios.

Date received: December 29, 2014

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