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math.GT2009★ 3 cited
The Jones polynomial and boundary slopes of alternating knots
Cynthia L. Curtis, Samuel Taylor
We show for an alternating knot the minimal boundary slope of an essential spanning surface is given by the signature plus twice the minimum degree of the Jones polynomial and the…
math.GT2009★ 4 cited
The spiral index of knots
Colin Adams, William George, Rachel Hudson +4
Two new invariants that are closely related to Milnor's curvature-torsion invariant are introduced. The first, the spiral index of a knot, captures the minimum number of maxima amo…