Rational tangles and the modular group
Geometric Topology
2009-08-18 v1
Abstract
There is a natural way to associate with a transformation of an isotopy class of rational tangles to another, an element of the modular group. The correspondence between the isotopy classes of rational tangles and rational numbers follows, as well as the relation with the braid group .
Cite
@article{arxiv.0908.2195,
title = {Rational tangles and the modular group},
author = {Francesca Aicardi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2195},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 14 figures