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Towards invariants of surfaces in $ 4$-space via classical link invariants

Author(s): Sang Youl Lee
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361 (2009), 237-265.
MSC (2000): Primary 57Q45; Secondary 57M25
Posted: August 13, 2008
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Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a method to construct ambient isotopy invariants for smooth imbeddings of closed surfaces into $ 4$-space by using hyperbolic splittings of the imbedded surfaces and an arbitrary given isotopy or regular isotopy invariant of classical knots and links in $ 3$-space. Using this construction, adopting the Kauffman bracket polynomial as an example, we produce some invariants.

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Sang Youl Lee
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Pusan National University, Pusan 609-735, Korea
Email: sangyoul@pusan.ac.kr

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04568-6
PII: S 0002-9947(08)04568-6
Keywords: Kauffman bracket polynomial, knotted surface, knot with bands, surface link, Yoshikawa moves, ch-diagram
Received by editor(s): December 18, 2006
Posted: August 13, 2008
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
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