Thomas W. Mattman, Gabriel Maybrun, Kristin Robinson
Published 2005-10-24, updated 2007-04-13Version 2
We prove that for 2-bridge knots, the diameter, D, of the set of boundary slopes is twice the crossing number, c. This constitutes partial verification of a conjecture that, for all knots in S^3, D is at most 2c.
Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures. v2 - No changes - we only wish to note that this is an early version of a paper to appear in The Osaka Journal of Mathematics
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