Classifying Immersed Curves

DOI10.2307/2047890zbMath0742.57008OpenAlexW4247795287MaRDI QIDQ3971150

J. Scott Carter

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2047890

zbMATH Keywords

curves immersed in an oriented closed surfacegeotopicisomorphic classes of Gauss paragraphsstable geotopy classes of immersed curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Immersions in differential topology (57R42)

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