Extending quasi-alternating links III

Champanerkar and Kofman [1] introduced a method for constructing quasi-alternating links by replacing a quasi-alternating crossing in a link diagram with a rational tangle of the same type. This approach, however, does not generally extend to alternating tangles of the opposite type or to non-alternating tangles. In this paper, we identify sufficient conditions under which the construction remains valid when the crossing is replaced by an alternating rational tangle of opposite type. We also prove that this method applies to certain non-alternating pretzel tangles. As an application, we provide a table of non-alternating quasi-alternating knots with 13 crossings obtained using this construction. Additionally, we describe an infinite family of quasi-alternating links featuring a non-twisted quasi-alternating crossing that satisfies these sufficient conditions.