{ "id": "2309.03814", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-09-07T16:11:11.000Z", "updated": "2023-09-07T16:11:11.000Z", "title": "Crossing numbers of cable knots", "authors": [ "Efstratia Kalfagianni", "Rob Mcconkey" ], "comment": "10 pages, 4 Figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2108.12391", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "We use the degree of the colored Jones knot polynomials to show that the crossing number of a $(p,q)$-cable of an adequate knot with crossing number $c$ is larger than $q^2\\, c$. As an application we determine the crossing number of $2$-cables of adequate knots.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-09-07T16:11:11.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57K10", "57K14", "57K16" ], "keywords": [ "crossing number", "cable knots", "adequate knot", "colored jones knot polynomials" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }