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On Slavik Jablan's work on 4-moves

Geometric Topology 2016-01-01 v1

Abstract

We show that every alternating link of 2-components and 12 crossings can be reduced by 4-moves to the trivial link or the Hopf link. It answers the question asked in one of the last papers by Slavik Jablan.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1512.09162,
  title  = {On Slavik Jablan's work on 4-moves},
  author = {Jozef H. Przytycki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.09162},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

29 pages, 34 figures, dedicated to Memory of Slavik Jablan (1952--2015). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:math/0405248

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