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