Knots of genus one or on the number of alternating knots of given genus
Authors:
A. Stoimenow
Affiliation:
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Mathematics Institute, Theresienstraße 39, 80333 München, Germany
Abstract:
We prove that any non-hyperbolic genus one knot except the trefoil does not have a minimal canonical Seifert surface and that there are only polynomially many in the crossing number positive knots of given genus or given unknotting number.