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Bridge numbers of torus knots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2007

JENNIFER SCHULTENS
JENNIFER SCHULTENS*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, 1 Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A. e-mail: jcs@math.ucdavis.edu
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Abstract

We provide a new self contained proof of the following result of H. Schubert: If K is a (p,q)-torus knot, then the bridge number of K is min{p, q}.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 143 , Issue 3 , November 2007 , pp. 621 - 625
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2007

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