Tait's flyping conjecture for well-connected links
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Tait's flyping conjecture for well-connected links
zbMATH Open document ID: 0831.57002
published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B
publication date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/2302
review text: The author calls a link diagram well-connected if it is connected and has no non-trivial 2-edge or 4-edge cuts. In this paper Tait's flyping conjecture is carefully proved for alternating well-connected link diagrams. The Tait flyping conjecture [\textit{P. G. Tait}, Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 28, 145-190 (1877; JFM 09.0392.09)], that so-called reduced diagrams of equivalent links are related by certain simple operations has been proved (as the author points out) by \textit{W. W. Menasco} and \textit{M. B. Thistlethwaite} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 25, No. 2, 403-412 (1991; Zbl 0745.57002)].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M25
zbMATH DE Number: 572458
zbMATH Keywords: link diagram
zbMATH Keywords: well-connected
zbMATH Keywords: Tait's flyping conjecture
reviewed by: Lee P. Neuwirth
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2166444846
DOI: 10.1006/JCTB.1993.1032
author: Alexander Schrijver
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 572458