THE 2-GENERALIZED KNOT GROUP DETERMINES THE KNOT

DOI10.1142/S0219199708003058zbMATH Open1176.57012arXiv0804.0807MaRDI QIDQ3607435FDOQ3607435

Authors: Sam Nelson, Walter D. Neumann 

Publication date: 2 March 2009

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Generalized knot groups $G_n(K)$ were introduced independently by Kelly (1991) and Wada (1992). We prove that $G_2(K)$ determines the unoriented knot type and sketch a proof of the same for $G_n(K)$ for $n>2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0807

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zbMATH Keywords

JSJ-decompositionknot exteriorWirtinger presentationperipheral structuregeneralized knot group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

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