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Cancellation of hyperbolic ε-hermitian forms and of simple knots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Eva Bayer-Fluckiger
Eva Bayer-Fluckiger
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Section de Mathématiques, Université de Genève, Switzerland
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An n-knot will be a smooth, oriented submanifold Kn ⊂ Sn+2 such that Kn is homeomorphic to Sn. Given two knots and , we define their connected sum as in [13], p. 39. The cancellation problem for n-knots is the following.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 98 , Issue 1 , July 1985 , pp. 111 - 115
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1985

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