Reduced alternating diagrams of links in thickened surfaces and of virtual links minimize crossing number, and any two such diagrams of the same link have the same writhe.
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The Jones-Krushkal polynomial and minimal diagrams of surface links
Reduced alternating diagrams of links in thickened surfaces and of virtual links minimize crossing number, and any two such diagrams of the same link have the same writhe.