Surgery Description of Colored Knots
By a knot, or link, we mean a circle, or a collection of circles, embedded in the three-sphere S3. The study of knots is a very rich subject and plays a key role in the area of low-dimensional topology. In fact, a theorem of W.B.R. Lickorish and A.D. Wallace states that any three-dimensional manifol...
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LSU
2008
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-03082008-082125/ |