On the problems of determining knots by their complements and knot complements by their groups
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Abstract:
Modulo the conjecture that the complement of a prime knot in the $3$-sphere is determined by its fundamental group, we show that at most finitely many mutually inequivalent knots can have homeomorphic complements.References
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- © Copyright 1976 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (1976), 140-142
- MSC: Primary 55A25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1976-0402719-1
- MathSciNet review: 0402719