Rost, Markus; Zieschang, Heiner Meridional generators and plat presentations of torus links. (English) Zbl 0587.57005 J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 35, 551-562 (1987). For the torus link \({\mathfrak t}(a,b)\) the bridge number and the minimal number of meridional (Wirtinger) generators necessary to generate the knot group coincide and are equal to min(\(| a|,| b|)\). Moreover, any two minimal plat presentations of \({\mathfrak t}(a,b)\) are algebraically equivalent. Cited in 10 Documents MSC: 57M25 Knots and links in the \(3\)-sphere (MSC2010) 57M05 Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus 20F05 Generators, relations, and presentations of groups Keywords:torus link; bridge number; meridional generators; knot group; minimal plat presentations PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{M. Rost} and \textit{H. Zieschang}, J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 35, 551--562 (1987; Zbl 0587.57005) Full Text: DOI