Knots Prime on Many Strings
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
- Vol. 282 (1) , 385-401
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1999594
Abstract
A study is made of the factorization of prime knots into tangles. Several infinite families of knots which do not factor into prime tangles are examined, and a new characterization of knot primality is developed.Keywords
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