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Verification of the Jones unknot conjecture up to 22 crossings. (English) Zbl 1386.57016

##### MSC:
 57M25 Knots and links in the $$3$$-sphere (MSC2010) 57M27 Invariants of knots and $$3$$-manifolds (MSC2010)
##### Software:
Boost; Boost C++ Libraries; GENREG; JAS; plantri; SnapPy
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