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A family of non-invertible prime links

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson
Affiliation:
School of General Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
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Abstract

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The purpose of this paper is to show that there exists an infinite family of non-invertible prime 2-component links in S3. It is then noted that the existence of such a family implies the existence of a family of non-invertible wild arcs in S3, which are tame modulo an endpoint.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , February 1971 , pp. 105 - 108
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1971

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