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. 2015 Mar 10;5:8928. doi: 10.1038/srep08928

Figure 5. A random 91 knot and its disk matrix.

Figure 5

Notice the presence of the predecessors 71, 51 and 31 as first, second, and third-generation subknots, respectively. Notice also the presence of several more complicated subknots, which consume a small amount of the area of the disk matrix. For the knot types with more than 10 crossings, we use the Dowker-Thistlethwaite notation where the leading letter (n or a) tells whether the knot type is non-alternating or alternating, respectively, and the knot types are indexed within the non-alternating and alternating classes.