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Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1950, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to shorter research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

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On the free genus of knots
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by Yoav Moriah PDF
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 99 (1987), 373-379 Request permission

Abstract:

The class of knots consisting of twisted Whitehead doubles can have arbitrarily large free genus but all have genus 1.
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  • Dale Rolfsen, Knots and links, Mathematics Lecture Series, No. 7, Publish or Perish, Inc., Berkeley, Calif., 1976. MR 0515288
  • Roger C. Lyndon and Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial group theory, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, Band 89, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1977. MR 0577064
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Additional Information
  • © Copyright 1987 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 99 (1987), 373-379
  • MSC: Primary 57M25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1987-0870804-3
  • MathSciNet review: 870804