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Unknotting number and L-space satellite operations
Daren Chen, Ian Zemke, Hugo Zhou
We give a lower bound for the unknotting number under the L-space satellite operations. In the case of braided L-space satellite operations, including cabling operations, we obtain…
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The link surgery modules of 2-component L-space links
Daren Chen, Ian Zemke, Hugo Zhou
In our earlier work, we studied the link surgery modules of two component L-space links. Therein, we computed two of the four idempotents of such modules. In this article, we use K…