A non-classification result for wild knots
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Abstract:
Using methods of descriptive theory it is shown that the classification problem for wild knots is strictly harder than that for countable structures.References
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Additional Information
- Vadim Kulikov
- Affiliation: Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, Währinger Strasse 25, 1090, Wien, Austria
- Address at time of publication: Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
- MR Author ID: 929141
- Email: vadim.kulikov@iki.fi
- Received by editor(s): May 7, 2015
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 19, 2016
- Published electronically: April 24, 2017
- Additional Notes: The author was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under project number P24654 and partially by the Finnish Academy Grant WBS1285203.
- © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 369 (2017), 5829-5853
- MSC (2010): Primary 03E15, 57M27, 57M30, 57M25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/6960
- MathSciNet review: 3646780