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Cobordisms of Free Knots and Gauss Words

Geometric Topology 2009-04-21 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We investigate cobordisms of free knots. Free knots and links are also called homotopy classes of Gauss words and phrases. We define a new strong invariant of free knots which allows to detect free knots not cobordant to the trivial one.

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@article{arxiv.0904.2862,
  title  = {Cobordisms of Free Knots and Gauss Words},
  author = {Denis Petrovich Ilyutko and Vassily Olegovich Manturov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2862},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 19 figures