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Record Nr.

UNINA9910479908303321

Autore

Murasugi Kunio <1929->

Titolo

An index of a graph with applications to knot theory / / Kunio Murasugi ; Jozef H. Przytycki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-4704-0085-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; Volume 106, Number 508

Disciplina

511/.5

Soggetti

Topological graph theory

Knot theory

Link theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"November 1993, Volume 106, Number 508 (third of 6 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter I: Index of a graph""; ""Â1 Preliminaries and notations""; ""Â2 Index of a graph""; ""Â3 Cycle index of a graph""; ""Â4 Index and other invariants""; ""Â5 Graphs with small indices""; ""Â6 Index of a reducible graph""; ""Chapter II: Link Theory""; ""Â7 Preliminaries and the index of a link""; ""Â8 Improvement of Morton-Frank-Williams inequalities""; ""Â9 Extremal terms of P[sub(L)](V,Z)""; ""Â10 Braid index of special alternating links""; ""Â11 Braid index and other invariants""

""Chapter III: Braid Index of alternating links""""Â12 Algebraic links""; ""Â13 Pretzel links""; ""Â14 Some other alternating links""; ""Â15 Concluding remarks and conjectures""; ""Appendix""; ""References""