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Conference on Knot Theory and Its Applications to Physics and Quantum Computing; 60th birthday of Jozef H. Przytycki
January 6-9, 2015
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UTD) Tobias Hagge (UTD) Valentina S. Harizanov (GWU) Viswanath Ramakrishna (UTD) Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU) Adam S. Sikora (SUNYUB)

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Heegaard diagrams corresponding to Turaev surfaces
by
Cody Armond
University of Iowa
Coauthors: Nathan Druivenga, Thomas Kindred

Turaev surfaces are special surfaces constructed from link diagrams which the link projects to in an alternating fashion.

We describe a correspondence between Turaev surfaces of link diagrams and special Heegaard diagrams adapted to the links.

Date received: December 1, 2014

Copyright © 2014 by the author(s). The author(s) of this work and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Topology Atlas. Document # cbjz-14.