Alexander’s and Markov’s theorems in dimension four
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Abstract:
Alexander’s and Markov’s theorems state that any link type in ${R^3}$ is represented by a closed braid and that such representations are related by some elementary operations called Markov moves. We generalize the notion of a braid to that in 4-dimensional space and establish an analogue of these theorems.References
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- © Copyright 1994 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1994), 64-67
- MSC: Primary 57Q45; Secondary 57M25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00505-1
- MathSciNet review: 1254074