Knots and words
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
Knots and links are interpreted as homotopy classes of nanowords and nanophrases in an alphabet consisting of 4 letters. Similar results hold for curves on surfaces. We also discuss versions of the Jones link polynomial and the link quandles for nanophrases.
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@article{arxiv.math/0506390,
title = {Knots and words},
author = {V. Turaev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0506390},
year = {2007}
}
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19 pages, 3 figures