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On even-dimensional fibred knots obtained by plumbing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Daniel Lines
Affiliation:
Institut de mathématiques, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Extract

In this article we extend the study of ‘plumbing’ initiated in [10] to the case of fibred even-dimensional knots. Plumbing is a geometric operation on the fibre-surfaces of two fibred knots of the same dimension that produces another such knot.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1986

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