A combinatorial description of knotted surfaces and their isotopies

DOI10.1006/aima.1997.1618zbMath0870.57032MaRDI QIDQ1355467

J. Scott Carter, Masahico Saito, Joachim H. Rieger

Publication date: 28 August 1997

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/cb192e05778960ddfb9c597753b07c843acdb1f4

zbMATH Keywords

isotopy; combinatorial; knotted surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57Q37: Isotopy in PL-topology

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