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20032022
most citedEpimorphisms and Boundary Slopes of 2-Bridge Knots

16 citations · 28 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

math.GT2022

On the nonorientable 4-genus of double twist knots

Jim Hoste, Patrick D. Shanahan, Cornelia A. Van Cott

We investigate the nonorientable 4-genus of a special family of 2-bridge knots, the twist knots and double twist knots . Because the nonorientable 4-genus is bounded…

math.GT2020

Crosscap number and epimorphisms of two-bridge knot groups

Jim Hoste, Patrick D. Shanahan, Cornelia A. Van Cott

We consider the relationship between the crosscap number of knots and a partial order on the set of all prime knots, which is defined as follows. For two knots and , we…

math.GT2018

Remarks on Suzuki's Knot Epimorphism Number

Jim Hoste, Joshua Ocana Mercado, Patrick D. Shanahan

A partial order on prime knots can be defined by declaring if there exists an epimorphism from the knot group of onto the knot group of . Suppose that is a 2-br…

math.GT2018

Finite -quandles of torus and two-bridge links

Alissa S. Crans, Jim Hoste, Blake Mellor +1

We compute Cayley graphs and automorphism groups for all finite -quandles of two-bridge and torus knots and links, as well as torus links with an axis.

math.GT2017

An enumeration process for racks

Jim Hoste, Patrick D. Shanahan

Given a presentation for a rack , we define a process which systematically enumerates the elements of . The process is modeled on the systematic enumeration…

math.GT2016★ 7 cited

Links with finite -quandles

Jim Hoste, Patrick D. Shanahan

We prove a conjecture of Przytycki which asserts that the -quandle of a link in the 3-sphere is finite if and only if the fundamental group of the -fold cyclic branched c…