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Pseudo knots and an obstruction to cosmetic crossings

Geometric Topology 2015-12-16 v1

Abstract

Pseudo links have two crossing types: classical crossings and indeterminate crossings. They were first introduced by Ryo Hanaki as a possible tool for analyzing images produced by electron microscopy of DNA. A normalized bracket polynomial is defined for pseudo links and then used to construct and obstruction to cosmetic crossings in classical links.

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@article{arxiv.1512.04753,
  title  = {Pseudo knots and an obstruction to cosmetic crossings},
  author = {Heather A. Dye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.04753},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures