2 papers
math.GT2025
The Montesinos-Nakanishi 3-move conjecture for links up to 20 crossings
Rhea Palak Bakshi, Benjamin A. Burton, Huizheng Guo +4
Yasutaka Nakanishi formulated the following conjecture in 1981: every link is 3-move equivalent to a trivial link. While the conjecture was proved for several specific cases, it re…
math.GT2024
Independence complexes of circle graphs
Rhea Palak Bakshi, Ali Guo, Dionne Ibarra +4
Independence complexes of circle graphs are purely combinatorial objects. However, when constructed from some diagram of a link , they reveal topological properties of , more…