A specious unlinking strategy
(2014)
Journal Article
Friedl, S., Nagel, M., & Powell, M. (2014). A specious unlinking strategy. Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 69(2), 207-210. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10998-014-0063-y
We show that the following unlinking strategy does not always yield an optimal sequence of crossing changes: first split the link with the minimal number of crossing changes, and then unknot the resulting components.