Loop Numbers of Knots and Links
This thesis introduces a new quantity called loop number, and shows the conditions in which loop numbers become knot invariants. For a given knot diagram D, one can traverse the knot diagram and count the number of loops created by the traversal. The number of loops recorded depends on the starting...
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1952 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2958&context=theses |