A knot is an -embeddable knot if it can be placed on a genus standard embedded surface without crossings, but cannot be placed on any standardly embedded surface of lower genus without crossings. Any knot is an -embeddable knot for some . The figure eight knot is a 2-embeddable knot. A knot with bridge number is an -embeddable knot where .
Embeddable Knot
See also
Embedded Surface, Tunnel NumberExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Embeddable Knot." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/EmbeddableKnot.html