Classifying 2-string tangles within families and tangle tabulation

A knot can be thought of as a knotted piece of string with the ends glued together. A tangle is formed by intersecting a knot with a 3-dimensional ball. The portion of the knot in the interior of the ball along with the fixed intersection points on the surface of the ball form the tangle. Tangles ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caples, Christine
Other Authors: Darcy, Isabel K.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5918
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7399&context=etd