On the minimum number of Fox colorings of knots

On the minimum number of Fox colorings of knots

Hamid Abchir, Mohamed Elhamdadi and Soukaina Lamsifer – GJM, Volume 5, Issue 2 (2020), 122-137.

We investigate Fox colorings of knots that are 17-colorable. Precisely, we prove that any 17-colorable knot has a diagram such that exactly 6 among the seventeen colors are assigned to the arcs of the diagram.

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Received: May 23, 2019.
Accepted: September 11, 2020.
Published online: December 10, 2020.

Authors:

Hamid Abchir
Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco.
Mohamed Elhamdadi
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Soukaina Lamsifer
Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco.

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