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    mathematical theory of knots, the unknot, not knot, or trivial knot, is the least knotted of all knots. Intuitively, the unknot is a closed loop of rope without...
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    are joined so it cannot be undone, the simplest knot being a ring (or "unknot"). In mathematical language, a knot is an embedding of a circle in 3-dimensional...
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  • mathematics, a stuck unknot is a closed polygonal chain in three-dimensional space (a skew polygon) that is topologically equal to the unknot but cannot be deformed...
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  • polynomial is characterized by taking the value 1 on any diagram of the unknot and satisfies the following skein relation: ( t 1 / 2 − t − 1 / 2 ) V (...
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    distinguishes the trefoil from the unknot. The simplest such invariant is tricolorability: the trefoil is tricolorable, but the unknot is not. In addition, virtually...
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  • less than or equal to 4π, then K is an unknot, i.e.: If   ∮ K | κ ( s ) | d s ≤ 4 π ,   then   K   is an unknot . {\displaystyle {\text{If}}\ \oint _{K}|\kappa...
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    Unsolved problem in mathematics: Can unknots be recognized in polynomial time? (more unsolved problems in mathematics) In mathematics, the unknotting...
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  • Thumbnail for Decorative knot
    (King Crimson album) knotwork (Discipline Global Mobile logo) Endless knot (unknot) Eternity knot Fan knot Fiador knot Flat mat knot Flores button knot Friendship...
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    the ends together. (That is, a twist knot is any Whitehead double of an unknot.) The twist knots are an infinite family of knots, and are considered the...
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    as well. The standard Möbius strip has the unknot for a boundary but is not a Seifert surface for the unknot because it is not orientable. The "checkerboard"...
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    of components is gcd(p, q)). A torus knot is trivial (equivalent to the unknot) if and only if either p or q is equal to 1 or −1. The simplest nontrivial...
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    rings (63 2) L10a140 Satellite Composite knots Granny Square Knot sum Torus Unknot (01) Trefoil (31) Cinquefoil (51) Septafoil (71) Unlink (02 1) Hopf (22...
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    simplest knot, called the unknot or trivial knot, is a round circle embedded in R3. In the ordinary sense of the word, the unknot is not "knotted" at all...
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    is not actually knotted, it would in topological terms be considered an unknot. In Norwegian heraldry a Bowen knot is called a valknute (valknut) and the...
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    The unknot is not equivalent to the trefoil knot since one cannot be deformed into the other through a continuous path of homeomorphisms of the ambient...
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  • Thumbnail for Figure-eight knot (mathematics)
    it the knot with the third-smallest possible crossing number, after the unknot and the trefoil knot. The figure-eight knot is a prime knot. The name is...
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  • Thumbnail for Reidemeister move
    number of Reidemeister moves required to change a diagram of the unknot to the standard unknot. In detail, for any such diagram with c {\displaystyle c} crossings...
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  • further negative supercoiling like the latter enzyme. Topoisomerase IV can unknot right-handed knots and decatenate right-handed catenanes without acting...
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  • first diagram is two unknots with four crossings. Patching the latter P() = A × P() + P() gives, again, a trefoil, and two unknots with two crossings (the...
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    one component is called the Hopf link, which consists of two circles (or unknots) linked together once. The circles in the Borromean rings are collectively...
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  • t ) = 1 {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}P_{n}(unknot)&=q^{n-1}+q^{n-3}+\cdots +q^{1-n}&&n>0\\P_{0}(unknot)&=1\end{aligned}}} For n > 1 {\displaystyle n>1}...
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    A chart of all prime knots with seven or fewer crossings, not including mirror-images, plus the unknot (which is not considered prime)....
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  • limited edition includes the DVD of the live performance of the one-man tour "Unknot/Reknot" held at Zepp DiverCity (Tokyo) on October 15, 2022. On June 26,...
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  • Thumbnail for List of mathematical knots and links
    links. See also list of knots, list of geometric topology topics. 01 knot/Unknot - a simple un-knotted closed loop 31 knot/Trefoil knot - (2,3)-torus knot...
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    In R 3 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} , the unknot is not ambient-isotopic to the trefoil knot since one cannot be deformed into the other through a...
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    property of having the same Alexander polynomial and Conway polynomial as the unknot. The issue of the sliceness of the Conway knot was resolved in 2020 by Lisa...
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  • not simply-connected. The conjecture states that all knots, except the unknot, have Property P. Research on Property P was started by R. H. Bing, who...
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  • (ISBN 0-8048-0644-6). This book includes Zen texts, but also the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Unknot The World In You. His second book, which published through Sequoia University...
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  • knots to the hyperbolic geometry of their complements. Let O denote the unknot. For any knot K {\displaystyle K} , let ⟨ K ⟩ N {\displaystyle \langle K\rangle...
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  • conjectures in stable homotopy theory to be resolved. Unknotting problem: can unknots be recognized in polynomial time? Volume conjecture relating quantum invariants...
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