%0 Journal Article %T Rectangle condition on $n$-bridge presentation of knots %A Bo-hyun Kwon %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %X In this paper, we define the rectangle condition for $n$-bridge presentation of knots whose definition is analogous to the definition of the rectangle condition for Heegaard splittings of $3$-manifolds. We show that the satisfaction of the rectangle condition for $n$-bridge presentation can guarantee that the Hempel distance for the $n$-bridge presentation is greater than or equal to $2$. Especially, we find a certain condition of $6$-plat presentations to be alternating $3$-bridge knots by using the rectangle condition. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7165v4