Quasipositive plumbing (constructions of quasipositive knots and links, V)

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 257-267

  Rudolph, Lee ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Murasugi sum; Plumbing; Quasipositive; Slice genus; Thom conjecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944441824     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-98-04407-4     Document Type: Article

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