Stevedore's Knot
The stevedore's knot is the 6-crossing prime knot
. It is implemented in the Wolfram Language as KnotData["Stevedore"].
It has braid word
. It has Arf invariant 0 and is not amphichiral, although it is invertible. It is a slice knot (Rolfsen 1976, p. 225).
The Alexander polynomial
, BLM/Ho polynomial
, Conway polynomial
, HOMFLY polynomial
, and Jones polynomial
of Stevedore's knot are
Surprisingly, the knot 09-046 shares the same Alexander polynomial with the stevedore's knot. However, no knots on 10 or fewer crossings share the same BLM/Ho polynomial or Jones polynomial with it.
REFERENCES:
Bar-Natan, D. "The Knot
." https://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/KAtlas/Knots/6.1.html.
KnotPlot. "
." https://newweb.cecm.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/KnotPlot/KnotServer/kserver?ncomp=1&ncross=6&id=1.
Rolfsen, D. Knots and Links. Wilmington, DE: Publish or Perish Press, p. 225, 1976.