Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/iii/paper-112/1/ii/solution

Take the twist knot whose standard diagram has half-twists in its twist region and two crossings in its clasp. Every nontrivial twist knot has Seifert genus one. This diagram is a reduced alternating knot diagram, so the Tait crossing-number theorem says that its crossings realize the crossing number of a knot. Thus this knot has and .

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