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Knots in the Triangle (Knots kNot in Washington)
April 29 - May 1, 2016
North Carolina State University
Raleigh NC, 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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Some remarks on the nugatory crossing conjecture
by
Tye Lidman
IAS
Coauthors: Allison Moore

The nugatory crossing conjecture states that changing a non-nugatory crossing in a knot diagram changes the isotopy type of the knot. Using some basic three-manifold topology, we will give some new families of knots satisfying this conjecture.

Date received: April 2, 2016

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