English

Elementary knot theory

Geometric Topology 2016-04-14 v1

Abstract

The aim of this survey article is to highlight several notoriously intractable problems about knots and links, as well as to provide a brief discussion of what is known about them.

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@article{arxiv.1604.03778,
  title  = {Elementary knot theory},
  author = {Marc Lackenby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03778},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

33 pages, 13 figures. To be published by the Clay Mathematics Institute

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