Diagrams of divide links
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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.References
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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