The Unknotting Problem

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-32162-2_8zbMath1349.57001MaRDI QIDQ2826811

Louis H. Kauffman

Publication date: 18 October 2016

Published in: Open Problems in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32162-2_8

zbMATH Keywords

survey; knots; Vassiliev invariants; unknotting; culprit; kernel detection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes

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