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Triviality and splittability of special almost alternating links via canonical Seifert surfaces

✍ Scribed by Mikami Hirasawa

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 272 KB
Volume: 102
Category: Article
ISSN: 0166-8641
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-8641(98)00138-2

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✦ Synopsis

In this article we give a sufficient condition for almost alternating diagrams to represent a nontrivial knot or a non-splittable link. Using this result, we determine which special almost alternating diagrams represent the unknot or a splittable link.