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Abstract:

Recently N. A’Campo suggested a construction of a link from a generic immersion of a curve into a 2-disk. It is tightly related to the singularity theory. In this paper, we give a simple procedure to draw a diagram of the link from a picture of the curve.
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Additional Information
  • Sergei Chmutov
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University at Mansfield, 1680 University Drive, Mansfield, Ohio 44906
  • Email: chmutov@math.ohio-state.edu
  • Received by editor(s): November 19, 2001
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 17, 2001
  • Published electronically: October 15, 2002
  • Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
  • © Copyright 2002 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), 1623-1627
  • MSC (2000): Primary 57M25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06770-9
  • MathSciNet review: 1950295