Thicknesses of knots

DOI10.1017/S0305004198003338zbMath0924.57010OpenAlexW1984441614MaRDI QIDQ4242621

Yuanan Diao, E. J. Janse van Rensburg, Claus Ernst

Publication date: 16 November 1999

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004198003338

zbMATH Keywords

thickness of a knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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