Untying knots in 4D and Wedderburn's Theorem
Geometric Topology
2021-08-06 v2 Rings and Algebras
Abstract
It is proved that the Wedderburn Theorem on finite division rings implies that all knots and links in the smooth 4-dimensional manifolds are trivial.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.00326,
title = {Untying knots in 4D and Wedderburn's Theorem},
author = {Igor Nikolaev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00326},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
4 pages; to appear Communications in Algebra