Ravels arising from Montesinos Tangles
Geometric Topology
2016-10-31 v2
Abstract
A ravel is a spatial graph which is non-planar but contains no non-trivial knots or links. We characterize when a Montesinos tangle can become a ravel as the result of vertex closure with and without replacing some number of crossings by vertices.
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@article{arxiv.1511.04637,
title = {Ravels arising from Montesinos Tangles},
author = {Erica Flapan and Allison N. Miller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04637},
year = {2016}
}