{ "id": "2008.06483", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-08-14T17:38:59.000Z", "updated": "2020-08-14T17:38:59.000Z", "title": "Superbridge and Bridge Indices for Knots", "authors": [ "Colin Adams", "Nikhil Agarwal", "Rachel Allen", "Tirasan Khandhawit", "Alex Simons", "Rebecca Winarski", "Mary Wootters" ], "comment": "12pages, 4 figures", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "We improve the upper bound on the superbridge index $sb[K]$ of a knot type $[K]$ in terms of the bridge index $b[K]$ from $sb[K] \\leq 5b -3$ to $sb[K]\\leq 3b[k] - 1$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-08-14T17:38:59.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57K10" ], "keywords": [ "upper bound", "superbridge index", "knot type" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }