Whitehead link
Two interlinked loops with five structural crossings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In knot theory, the Whitehead link, named for J. H. C. Whitehead, is one of the most basic links. It can be drawn as an alternating link with five crossings, from the overlay of a circle and a figure-eight shaped loop.
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Whitehead link | |
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Braid length | 5 |
Braid no. | 3 |
Crossing no. | 5 |
Hyperbolic volume | 3.663862377 |
Linking no. | 0 |
Unknotting no. | 1 |
Conway notation | [212] |
A–B notation | 52 1 |
Thistlethwaite | L5a1 |
Last / Next | L4a1 / L6a1 |
Other | |
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