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The crossing number and maximal bridge length of a knot diagram

A. Stoimenow (with an Appendix by Mark Kidwell)

Appendix: Mark Kidwell

Vol. 210 (2003), No. 1, 189–199
Abstract

We give examples showing that Kidwell’s inequality for the maximal degree of the Brandt-Lickorish-Millett-Ho polynomial is in general not sharp.

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Received: 30 May 1999
Revised: 28 March 2001
Published: 1 May 2003
Authors
A. Stoimenow (with an Appendix by Mark Kidwell)
c/o Kunio Murasugi
Department of Mathematics
University of Toronto
Canada M5S 3G3
Mark Kidwell
Department of Mathematics
572 Holloway Road
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD 21402