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On prime noninvertible links

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Wilbur Whitten
Wilbur Whitten
Affiliation:
University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.
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Abstract

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It is the purpose of this paper to exhibit an infinite collection of prime, noninvertible links; each link in the collection is the union of two invertible knots. In fact, we present two such families of links. Our examples heuristically indicate that collections of links of this type exist in many varieties.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , August 1971 , pp. 127 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1971

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