Construction of Non-alternating Knots
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چکیده
We investigate the behaviour of Rasmussen’s invariant s under the sharp operation on knots and obtain a lower bound for the sharp unknotting number. This bound leads us to an interesting move that transforms arbitrary knots into non-alternating knots.
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