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19972023
most citedThin position for knots and 3-manifolds: a unified approach

5 citations · 11 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

math.GT2023

Splittings of Tangles and Spatial Graphs

Erica Flapan, Hugh Howards

Menasco proved the surprising result that if is a reduced, alternating, connected projection of a link and is prime then is prime. This result has been generalized…

math.GT2019

An infinite family of knots whose hexagonal mosaic number is only realized in non-reduced projections

Hugh Howards, Jiong Li, Xiaotian Liu +1

We give an infinite family of knots such that for any given , the family contains a knot which can be embedded on a hexagonal -mosaic, but cannot fit on a hexagonal $r…

math.GT2014

Forming the Borromean Rings out of arbitrary polygonal unknots

Hugh Howards

We prove the perhaps surprising result that given any three polygonal unknots in , then we may form the Borromean rings out of them through rigid motions of applied to…

math.GT2014

Intrinsic Chirality of Graphs in 3-manifolds

Erica Flapan, Hugh Howards

The main result of this paper is that for every closed, connected, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold , there is an integer such that any abstract graph with no automorph…

math.GT2014

Crossing Number Bound in Knot Mosaics

Hugh Howards, Andrew Kobin

Knot mosaics are used to model physical quantum states. The mosaic number of a knot is the smallest integer such that the knot can be represented as a knot -mosaic. In this…

math.GT2011

An infinite family of convex Brunnian links in

Robert Davis, Hugh Howards, Jonathan Newman +1

This paper proves that convex Brunnian links exist for every dimension by constructing explicit examples. These examples are three-component links which are higher-dimen…