• In mathematics, Tait's conjecture states that "Every 3-connected planar cubic graph has a Hamiltonian cycle (along the edges) through all its vertices"...
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  • Tait flyping conjecture was proved by Thistlethwaite and William Menasco in 1991. The Tait flyping conjecture implies some more of Tait's conjectures:...
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    theory mainly for Tait's conjecture on cubic graphs. He is also one of the namesakes of the Tait–Kneser theorem on osculating circles. Tait was born in Dalkeith...
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    doi:10.1215/00127094-2017-0004. S2CID 59023367. Weisstein, Eric W. "Tait's Knot Conjectures". MathWorld. Accessed: May 5, 2013. Kauffman, Louis H. (1987)....
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    "Morwen's home page". Oliver Thistlethwaite Weisstein, Eric W. "Tait's Knot Conjectures". MathWorld. Thistlethwaite's 52-move algorithm "2022 Class of...
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    Tait's and Tutte's conjectures, stating that every bipartite cubic polyhedron is Hamiltonian, or, equivalently, that every counterexample to Tait's conjecture...
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    is much larger than the Herschel graph. A refinement of Tait's conjecture, Barnette's conjecture that every bipartite 3-regular polyhedral graph is Hamiltonian...
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  • Schoenflies conjecture (disproved 1910) Tait's conjecture Von Neumann conjecture Weyl–Berry conjecture Williamson conjecture In mathematics, ideas are supposedly...
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    permutohedron Subhamiltonian graph, a subgraph of a planar Hamiltonian graph Tait's conjecture (now known false) that 3-regular polyhedral graphs are Hamiltonian...
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  • the Seifert conjecture, the Pólya conjecture, the conjecture of Hilbert's fourteenth problem, Tait's conjecture, and the Ganea conjecture. In philosophy...
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    graph, but is non-hamiltonian. Therefore, it is a counterexample to Tait's conjecture that every 3-regular polyhedron has a Hamiltonian cycle. Published...
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    Tait conjectured that every cubic polyhedral graph has a Hamiltonian circuit. William Thomas Tutte provided a counter-example to Tait's conjecture, the...
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  • Tait's conjecture, a 15-crossing amphicheiral knot, was found by Jim Hoste, Morwen Thistlethwaite, and Jeff Weeks in 1998. However, Tait's conjecture...
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  • graphs, and Hamiltonian and non-Hamiltonian graphs. He disproved Tait's conjecture, on the Hamiltonicity of polyhedral graphs, by using the construction...
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  • graph Ramsey's theorem Sperner's lemma Strong coloring Subcoloring Tait's conjecture Total coloring Uniquely colorable graph Path (graph theory) Seven...
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    In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers a, b,...
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  • of the Tutte graph in 1946. Instead, Barnette's conjecture, still unproven, weakens Tait's conjecture in a different way, to bipartite planar graphs....
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    theorem of Lackenby and Meyerhoff, whose proof relies on the geometrization conjecture and computer assistance, holds that 10 is the largest possible number...
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    knots in the aether led to Peter Guthrie Tait's creation of the first knot tables for complete classification. Tait, in 1885, published a table of knots with...
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    that is simultaneously alternating and algebraic. It follows from the Tait conjectures that the crossing number of the Borromean rings (the fewest crossings...
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    that the writhe of a reduced diagram of a knot is an invariant (see Tait conjectures), as the two diagrams for the pair have different writhes. In some...
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    instance it can prove non-Hamiltonicity of some counterexamples to Tait's conjecture that cubic polyhedral graphs are Hamiltonian. Grinberg's theorem is...
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  • would give the hyperbolic volume of the knot complement. (See Volume conjecture.) In 2000 Mikhail Khovanov constructed a certain chain complex for knots...
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    sphere Complement Double torus Fibered Knot List of knots and links Ribbon Slice Sum Tait conjectures Twist Wild Writhe Surgery theory Category Commons...
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    Whitehead, who spent much of the 1930s looking for a proof of the Poincaré conjecture. In 1934, he used the link as part of his construction of the now-named...
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  • theorem of Peter Kronheimer and Tomasz Mrowka, formerly known as the Milnor conjecture (see below). There is a spectral sequence relating Khovanov homology with...
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  • Milnor conjecture (topology) Milnor map Möbius energy Mutation (knot theory) Physical knot theory Planar algebra Smith conjecture Tait conjectures Temperley–Lieb...
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  • absent above if the graph has no Hamiltonian cycle, which is rare (see Tait's conjecture). In this case a list of edges between pairs of vertices labeled 0...
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    sphere Complement Double torus Fibered Knot List of knots and links Ribbon Slice Sum Tait conjectures Twist Wild Writhe Surgery theory Category Commons...
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