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Knots in Washington XLI
December 4-6, 2015
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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On the arc index of cable links and Whitehead doubles
by
Hwa Jeong Lee
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Coauthors: Hideo Takioka

In this talk, we construct an algorithm to produce "canonical grid diagrams" of cable links and Whitehead doubles. We show that the algorithm correctly determines the arc index of 2-cable links and Whitehead doubles of all prime knots with up to 8 crossings.

Date received: November 16, 2015

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