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KNOTS AND LINKS IN LINEAR EMBEDDINGS OF K6

  • Published : 2007.05.31
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Abstract

We investigate the number of knots and links in linear embeddings of $K_6$, the complete graph with 6 vertices. Concretely, we show that any linear embedding of $K_6$ contains either only one Hopf link, or three Hopf links and one trefoil knot.

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