“Stick Number”的概念、定义、习题解题方法及翻译-数学辞典

单词

Stick Number

释义

Stick Number

Let the stick number of a Knot be the least number of straight sticks needed to make a Knot . The smallest stick number of any Knot is , where is the Trefoil Knot. If and areKnots, then

For a nontrivial Knot

, let

be the Crossing Number (i.e., the leastnumber of crossings in any projection of

). Then

The following table gives the stick number for some common knots.

Trefoil Knot	6
Whitehead Link	8

See also Crossing Number (Link), Triangle Counting

References

Adams, C. C. The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots. New York: W. H. Freeman, pp. 27-30, 1994.

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