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Alexander's and Markov's theorems in dimension four
Author(s):
Seiichi
Kamada
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
31
(1994),
64-67.
MathSciNet review:
1254074
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Abstract:
Alexander's and Markov's theorems state that any link type in  is represented by a closed braid and that such representations are related by some elementary operations called Markov moves. We generalize the notion of a braid to that in 4-dimensional space and establish an analogue of these theorems.
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DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00505-1
PII:
S 0273-0979(1994)00505-1
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1994,
American Mathematical Society
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