Intrinsic linking and knotting are arbitrarily complex
Geometric Topology
2009-01-18 v6 Combinatorics
Abstract
We show that, given any and , every embedding of any sufficiently large complete graph in contains an oriented link with components , ..., such that for every , and , where denotes the second coefficient of the Conway polynomial of .
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@article{arxiv.math/0610501,
title = {Intrinsic linking and knotting are arbitrarily complex},
author = {Erica Flapan and Blake Mellor and Ramin Naimi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0610501},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
18 pages, 5 figures. Proposition 2 has been strengthened, and Corollary 1 and Proposition 3 have been added to answer a question of Taniyama's