The Tait flyping conjecture

William W. Menasco; Morwen B. Thistlethwaite

doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16083-0

The Tait flyping conjecture

William W. Menasco
, Morwen B. Thistlethwaite

Mathematics

SUNY Buffalo
University of Tennessee

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Abstract

We announce a proof of the Tait flyping conjecture; the confirmation of this conjecture renders almost trivial the problem of deciding whether two given alternating link diagrams represent equivalent links. The proof of the conjecture also shows that alternating links have no “hidden” symmetries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	403-412
Number of pages	10
Journal	Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
Volume	25
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16083-0
State	Published - Oct 1991

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