English

Surgery untying of coloured knots

Geometric Topology 2009-04-06 v6

Abstract

For p=3 and for p=5 we prove that there are exactly p equivalence classes of p-coloured knots modulo (+/-1)--framed surgeries along unknots in the kernel of a p-colouring. These equivalence classes are represented by connect-sums of n left-hand (p,2)-torus knots with a given colouring when n=1,2,...,p. This gives a 3-colour and a 5-colour analogue of the surgery presentation of a knot.

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@article{arxiv.math/0506541,
  title  = {Surgery untying of coloured knots},
  author = {Daniel Moskovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0506541},
  year   = {2009}
}

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This is the version published by Algebraic & Geometric Topology on 24 May 2006

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