 Tait conjectures (source code)

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= Tait conjectures
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The Tait conjectures concern reduced <alternating knot diagrams>: they minimize the <crossing number of a knot>, have an invariant diagram <writhe>, and are related by flypes. These formerly conjectural assertions are now theorems; the first is the <Tait crossing-number theorem>.

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