The Smale invariant of a knot

DOI10.1007/BF02567435zbMath0586.57017MaRDI QIDQ1071356

Paul M. Melvin, John Forbes Hughes

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/140034

zbMATH Keywords

Seifert surfaceJ-homomorphismSmale invarianthomotopic to an embeddingimmersions of spheres in codimension 2obstruction to framing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) (J)-morphism (55Q50) Sectioning fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55S40)

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