The Classification of Links up to Link-Homotopy

DOI10.2307/1990959zbMath0704.57016OpenAlexW4253322547WikidataQ56474660 ScholiaQ56474660MaRDI QIDQ3484036

Nathan Habegger, Xiao Song Lin

Publication date: 1990

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1990959

zbMATH Keywords

geometric automorphism groupshomotopy classes of k-component links in \(S^ 3\)reduced link groupstring link homotopy groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology (57Q35) Hopf invariants (55Q25)

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