{ "id": "1803.02480", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-03-06T23:55:51.000Z", "updated": "2018-03-06T23:55:51.000Z", "title": "Width of the Whitehead double of a nontrivial knot", "authors": [ "Zhenkun Li", "Qilong Guo" ], "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "In this paper, we prove that $w(K) =4w(J)$, where $w(.)$ is the width of a knot and $K$ is the Whitehead double of a nontrivial knot $J$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-03-06T23:55:51.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57M25", "57M27" ], "keywords": [ "nontrivial knot", "whitehead double" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }