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Some noninvertible links
Author(s):
Gui-Song
Li
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
126
(1998),
1557-1563.
MSC (1991):
Primary 57M25
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Abstract:
We construct for each infinitely many -component oriented links that are neither amphicheiral nor invertible; among these examples, infinitely many are Brunnian links.
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Gui-Song
Li
Affiliation:
Institute of Systems Science, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100080, China
Email:
lgs@iss06.iss.ac.cn
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04173-2
PII:
S 0002-9939(98)04173-2
Keywords:
Links,
Brunnian links,
amphicheirality,
invertibility
Received by editor(s):
April 29, 1996
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
October 15, 1996
Communicated by:
Ronald A. Fintushel
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Copyright
1998,
American Mathematical Society
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