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Knot theory is dealing with embedding of curves in manifolds of dimension 3. A knot is a single circle embedded in the affine space of dimension 3 as a smooth curve not crossing itself. Many knot invariants are known and can be used to distinguish knots.

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On the genus of thin knots and the degree of the Alexander polynomial

I came across this papper by JA Baldwin which presents a combinatorial definition for the knot Floer homology. At a certain paragraph of the third page the author makes the next statement: the genus …
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Twisting equivalent links and the isotopy type of the resulting links

Take any link $L_1$ with an unknotted component $K$, cut along the disk bounded by K (which usually intersects some of the other components of $L_1$ transversally ), twist n times, and reglue. Let us …
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Homogeneous links and crossings smoothing

Let $L$ be an oriented homogeneous link and let $D$ be an oriented diagram of $L$ wich is not necessarily a homogeneous diagram. Fix some crossing $c$ in $D$ and construct the diagram $D_0$ by smoothi …
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