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Knots in Washington XLVII
January 20-21, 2019
George Washington University
Washington, DC, United States

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

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On the tunnel number and the cutting number of handlebody-knots
by
Tomo Murao
University of Tsukuba

For a handlebody-knot H, a constituent handlebody-knot of H is a handlebody-knot obtained from H by removing an open regular neighborhood of some meridian disks of H. In this talk, we provide necessary conditions to be constituent handlebody-knots by using G-family of quandles colorings. Furthermore, as the corollaries, we give lower bounds for the tunnel number and the cutting number of handlebody-knots, which are “dual” geometric invariants for handlebody-knots.

Date received: December 30, 2018


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