Alexander Numbering of Knotted Surface Diagrams
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A formula that relates triple points, branch points, and their distances from infinity is presented. We recover trivial normal Euler classes for oriented surfaces, and formulas on signed triple points.
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@article{arxiv.math/9811084,
title = {Alexander Numbering of Knotted Surface Diagrams},
author = {J. Scott Carter and Seiichi Kamada and Masahico Saito},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9811084},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 9 figures (files in eps format). Downloading of postscript file is better