A specious unlinking strategy

Abstract

We show that the following unlinking strategy does not always yield an optimal sequence of crossing changes: first split the link with the minimal number of crossing changes, and then unknot the resulting components.

4 pages, to be published by Periodica Mathematica Hungarica

References in corpus (3)

• A Link Splitting Spectral Sequence in Khovanov Homology
• Splitting numbers of links
• Blanchfield forms and Gordian distance