{ "id": "1505.02980", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-05-12T12:34:43.000Z", "updated": "2015-05-12T12:34:43.000Z", "title": "11-colored knot diagram with five colors", "authors": [ "Takuji Nakamura", "Yasutaka Nakanishi", "Shin Satoh" ], "comment": "20 pages, 27 figures. Submitted", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "We prove that any $11$-colorable knot is presented by an $11$-colored diagram where exactly five colors of eleven are assigned to the arcs. The number five is the minimum for all non-trivially $11$-colored diagrams of the knot. We also prove a similar result for any $11$-colorable ribbon $2$-knot.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-05-12T12:34:43.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57M25", "57Q45" ], "keywords": [ "knot diagram", "colored diagram", "similar result" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 20, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015arXiv150502980N" } } }