As we underlined in Section 1.11, we can distinguish generating
non-invertible knots and non-invertible knots that are members of
already derived families. From every generating non-invertible
pretzel knot its corresponding family is obtained by the following
substitutions, respecting symmetry conditions:
For n=10
crossings there is only one non-invertible pretzel
knot: 2 2,3,2 1.
For n=11
there are four of them:
For the first knot 4 1,2 1,3, its generating knot is 2 1,2 1,3 with n=8 crossings that satisfies the necessary condition for non-invertibility of pretzel knots: its type [0,0,1] consists only from 0-s and 1-s. It contains the tangles (2p) 1 and (2q) 1, so according to the symmetry condition it generates the family of non-invertible pretzel knots (2p) 1,(2q) 1,(2r+1) for p ¹ q. Hence, the first non-invertible knot in this family is 4 1,2 1,3.
For n=11, the four non-invertible knots are divided into two
subsets:
The first subset contains the knot 4 1,2 1,3 that belongs to the family of non-invertible knots (2p) 1,(2q) 1,(2r+1) with the additional symmetry condition p ¹ q, and the knots from the other subset generate families of non-invertible knots without additional requirements on parameters.
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