Knots and links in spatial graphs

Article by J. H. Conway and C. McA. Gordon

Published in 1983
Added on 2020-04-12

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The main purpose of this paper is to show that any embedding of \(K_7\) in three‐dimensional euclidean space contains a knotted cycle. By a similar but simpler argument, it is also shown that any embedding of \(K_6\) contains a pair of disjoint cycles which are homologically linked.

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key: KnotsAndLinksInSpatialGraphs
type: article
date_added: 2020-04-12
date_published: 1983-09-26

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@article{KnotsAndLinksInSpatialGraphs,
	key = {KnotsAndLinksInSpatialGraphs},
	type = {article},
	title = {Knots and links in spatial graphs},
	author = {J. H. Conway and C. McA. Gordon},
	abstract = {The main purpose of this paper is to show that any embedding of \(K{\_}7\) in three‐dimensional euclidean space contains a knotted cycle. By a similar but simpler argument, it is also shown that any embedding of \(K{\_}6\) contains a pair of disjoint cycles which are homologically linked.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2020-04-12},
	date_published = {1983-09-26},
	urls = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.3190070410,http://people.reed.edu/{\~{}}ormsbyk/138/ConwayGordon.pdf},
	collections = {Easily explained,Fun maths facts,Geometry},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.3190070410 http://people.reed.edu/{\~{}}ormsbyk/138/ConwayGordon.pdf},
	urldate = {2020-04-12},
	year = 1983
}

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