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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 ${n}\ge{2}$ infinitely many $n$-component oriented links that are neither amphicheiral nor invertible; among these examples, infinitely many are Brunnian links.


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Additional Information:

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
Copyright of article: Copyright 1998, American Mathematical Society


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