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Arc index via alternating tangle decomposition
by
Yongju Bae
Kyungpook National University, Korea(University of South Alabama)
A diagram D of a link L can be decomposed as the sum of alternating tangles. In this talk we will show that an upper bound of the arc index α(L) can be obtained from the alternating tangle decomposition of D, indeed, the number of alternating tangles and the number of non-alternating edges.
Date received: November 5, 2010
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