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December 2017 Ravels Arising from Montesinos Tangles
Erica FLAPAN, Allison N. MILLER
Tokyo J. Math. 40(2): 393-420 (December 2017). DOI: 10.3836/tjm/1502179235

Abstract

A ravel is a spatial graph which is non-planar but contains no non-trivial knots or links. We characterize when a Montesinos tangle can become a ravel as the result of vertex closure with and without replacing some number of crossings by vertices.

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Erica FLAPAN. Allison N. MILLER. "Ravels Arising from Montesinos Tangles." Tokyo J. Math. 40 (2) 393 - 420, December 2017. https://doi.org/10.3836/tjm/1502179235

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Published: December 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 9 January 2018

zbMATH: 06855942
MathSciNet: MR3743726
Digital Object Identifier: 10.3836/tjm/1502179235

Subjects:
Primary: 57M25
Secondary: 05C10 , 57M15

Rights: Copyright © 2017 Publication Committee for the Tokyo Journal of Mathematics

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