Knotted projections of planar graphs

Taniyama, Kouki

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1995-1301531-0

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Knotted projections of planar graphs
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by Kouki Taniyama

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995), 3575-3579

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1995-1301531-0

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Abstract:

In this paper we describe a regular projection of a planar graph that is achieved only by knotted embeddings in 3-space. We also give conditions under which any regular projection of such graphs can be achieved by unknotted embeddings.

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