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Space-Efficient Prime Knot 7-Mosaics

Aaron Heap·Natalie LaCourt
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The concepts of tile number and space-efficiency for knot mosaics were first explored by Heap and Knowles (arXiv:1702.06462), where they determined the possible tile numbers and space-efficient layouts for every prime knot with mosaic number 6 or less. In this paper, we extend those results to prime knots with mosaic number 7.

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Aaron Heap, Natalie LaCourt. 2019-12-30. Space-Efficient Prime Knot 7-Mosaics. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12040576

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