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Tangles and links: A view with trees

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36608, USA

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36608, USA

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Abstract

A result about spanning forests for graphs yields a short proof of Krebes’s theorem concerning embedded tangles in links.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. – John Muir (1890)

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AMSC: 57M15, 57M25

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