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A Note on the Rational Cuspidal Curves

Piotr Nayar, Barbara Pilat (2014)

Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mathematics

In this short note we give an elementary combinatorial argument, showing that the conjecture of J. Fernández de Bobadilla, I. Luengo-Velasco, A. Melle-Hernández and A. Némethi [Proc. London Math. Soc. 92 (2006), 99-138, Conjecture 1] follows from Theorem 5.4 of Brodzik and Livingston [arXiv:1304.1062] in the case of rational cuspidal curves with two critical points.

A note on unlinking numbers of Montesinos links.

K. Motegi (1996)

Revista Matemática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Let K (resp. L) be a Montesinos knot (resp. link) with at least four branches. Then we show the unknotting number (resp. unlinking number) of K (resp. L) is greater than 1.

A Polish AR-Space with no Nontrivial Isotopy

Tadeusz Dobrowolski (2008)

Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mathematics

The Polish space Y constructed in [vM1] admits no nontrivial isotopy. Yet, there exists a Polish group that acts transitively on Y.

A proof of Reidemeister-Singer’s theorem by Cerf’s methods

François Laudenbach (2014)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

Heegaard splittings and Heegaard diagrams of a closed 3-manifold M are translated into the language of Morse functions with Morse-Smale pseudo-gradients defined on M . We make use in a very simple setting of techniques which Jean Cerf developed for solving a famous pseudo-isotopy problem. In passing, we show how to cancel the supernumerary local extrema in a generic path of functions when dim M > 2 . The main tool that we introduce is an elementary swallow tail lemma which could be useful elsewhere.

A proof of Tait’s Conjecture on prime alternating - achiral knots

Nicola Ermotti, Cam Van Quach Hongler, Claude Weber (2012)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

In this paper we are interested in symmetries of alternating knots, more precisely in those related to achirality. We call the following statement Tait’s Conjecture on alternating - achiral knots:Let K be a prime alternating - achiral knot. Then there exists a minimal projection Π of K in S 2 S 3 and an involution ϕ : S 3 S 3 such that:1) ϕ reverses the orientation of S 3 ;2) ϕ ( S 2 ) = S 2 ;3) ϕ ( Π ) = Π ;4) ϕ has two fixed points on Π and hence reverses the orientation of K .The purpose of this paper is to prove this statement.For the historical...

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