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Classical Knot Theory

Geometric Topology 2012-06-22 v1

Abstract

This paper is a very brief introduction to knot theory. It describes knot coloring by quandles, the fundamental group of a knot complement, and handle-decompositions of knot complements.

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@article{arxiv.1206.4741,
  title  = {Classical Knot Theory},
  author = {J. Scott Carter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.4741},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

manuscript of paper in the journal Symmetry. There are some nice pictures here

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