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title

Homotopic but not Isotopic Families of Links

author

Holley, Lydia Jane

abstract

A link is a collection of disjoint, smoothly embedded circles in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We might think of this object as a chain of knots in physical space. We will consider an arbitrary $n$-component link $L$, and ask the question of whether or not there exists a corresponding infinite family for this $L$, say $\{L_i\}$, satisfying the following three properties:

contributor

Parsley, Jason (committee chair)

Parsley, Jason (committee member)

Moore, William (committee member)

Robinson, Stephen (committee member)

date

2020-05-29T08:36:14Z (accessioned)

2020-05-29T08:36:14Z (available)

2020 (issued)

degree

Mathematics and Statistics (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/96867 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis