Trefoil knot

The trefoil knot is the only prime knot with three crossings. It can be described as a (3,2)-torus knot, its braid word being σ₁³.

It is not equivalent to its mirror image (Dehn, 1914).

Its Alexander polynomial is -x²+x-1, and its knot group is

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