Visualization of A'Campo's fibered links and unknotting operation (Q1612211)

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Visualization of A'Campo's fibered links and unknotting operation
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    Visualization of A'Campo's fibered links and unknotting operation (English)
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    22 August 2002
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    The author gives an algorithmic method to draw the link of a ``divide''. Recall that divides were defined by N. A'Campo and are generic relative immersions in the unit disk of a finite number of 1-manifolds (i.e. intervals and circles). Following A'Campo one can associate a fibered link to a divide. The method presented by the author is applied to slalom divides to prove that the link associated to a slalom divide is arborescent. Moreover, the author gives an algorithmic construction of a Seifert surface associated to a link coming from a divide. Using these Seifert surfaces he can compute the unknotting number of a link associated to a one branch divide.
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    divide
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    link
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    slalom divide
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    slalom knot
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    unknotting operation
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    Seifert surface
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    unknotting number
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