Presentations of $n$-knots
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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.References
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- © Copyright 1975 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 202 (1975), 123-140
- MSC: Primary 57C45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1975-0358795-1
- MathSciNet review: 0358795