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On surface links whose link groups are abelian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2014

TETSUYA ITO
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan. http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tetitoh e-mail: [email protected]
INASA NAKAMURA
Affiliation:
Institute for Biology and Mathematics of Dynamical Cell Processes (iBMath), Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical Sciences, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo3-8-1 Komaba, Tokyo 153-8914, Japan. e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We study surface links whose link groups are free abelian, and construct various stimulating and highly non-trivial examples of such surface links.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2014 

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