2 papers
math.GT2025
Comparing -genera, Bridge-1 genera and Heegaard genera of knots
Ruifeng Qiu, Chao Wang, Yanqing Zou
Let , , , be the -genus, Heegaard genus, bridge-1 genus, tunnel number of a knot in the -sphere , respectively. It is known that $g_H(K)…
math.GT2024
A lower bound of the crossing number of composite knots
Ruifeng Qiu, Chao Wang
Let denote the crossing number of a knot , and let denote the connected sum of two oriented knots and . As a famous old question in knot theory, whe…