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Realizing tangle embeddings

A straightforward way of identifying a tangle embedded in a knot is to construct a knot from a given tangle. Since we are interested in the knots in the table up to $ 9$ crossings and tangles in the table up to $ 7$ crossings, we try the following procedures: For a given tangle $ T$ from the table, add a rational tangle $ R$ to obtain $ T+R$, then take closures $ N(T+R)$ and $ D(T+R)$, and see which knots in the table result. We list all such embeddings we find this way.



Masahico Saito - Quandle Website 2005-10-04