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On some groups related with Fox–Artin wild arcs

José María Montesinos-Amilibia

José María Montesinos-Amilibia

Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain

E-mail Address: montesin@mat.ucm.es

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Abstract

Two different topics are shown to be related. Some group presentations generalizing certain symmetric presentations found by Coxeter, and the ideal compactification of the sets obtained by lifting knots in 3-manifolds to their universal covering spaces.

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AMSC: 57N10, 57M05, 57N30

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