Presentations of 𝑛-knots

Kearton, C.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1975-0358795-1

Presentations of $n$-knots
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 202 (1975), 123-140 Request permission

Abstract:

The method of critical level embeddings is used to generalize the technique of knot presentations from the classical case to the case of $n$-knots. For $n > 3$, it is shown that an $n$-knot with algebraically simple complement has a correspondingly simple presentation.

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