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2018 Enumerating spherical $n$-links
Madeleine Burkhart, Joel Foisy
Involve 11(2): 195-206 (2018). DOI: 10.2140/involve.2018.11.195

Abstract

We investigate spherical links: that is, disjoint embeddings of 1-spheres and 0-spheres in the 2-sphere, where the notion of a split link is analogous to the usual concept. In the quest to enumerate distinct nonsplit n-links for arbitrary n, we must consider when it is possible for an embedding of circles and an even number of points to form a nonsplit link. The main result is a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for such an embedding. The final section includes tables of the distinct embeddings that yield nonsplit n-links for 4n8.

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Madeleine Burkhart. Joel Foisy. "Enumerating spherical $n$-links." Involve 11 (2) 195 - 206, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2018.11.195

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Received: 15 January 2015; Revised: 30 January 2016; Accepted: 5 December 2016; Published: 2018
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 06817014
MathSciNet: MR3733951
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/involve.2018.11.195

Subjects:
Primary: 05C30
Secondary: 05C10 , 57M15

Keywords: combinatorics , enumeration , linking , topological graph theory

Rights: Copyright © 2018 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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