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Which Finite Simple Knots are Twist‐Spun?
Author(s) -
Strickland Paul Martin
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
proceedings of the london mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.899
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1460-244X
pISSN - 0024-6115
DOI - 10.1112/plms/s3-56.1.114
Subject(s) - simple (philosophy) , twist , mathematics , knot (papermaking) , knot theory , pure mathematics , geometry , composite material , philosophy , epistemology , materials science
We investigate which simple even‐dimensional knots with finite knot modules may arise as twist‐spun simple knots; and give some examples of knots which cannot so arise for reasons which are essentially number‐theoretic.