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Knots with Braid Index Three Have Property-P

W. Menasco

Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2900, USA

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X. Zhang

Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2900, USA

Partially supported by NSF grant DMS 9971561.

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216503002457Cited by:4 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We prove that knots with braid index three in the 3-sphere satisfy the Property P conjecture.

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