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Zusammenfassung: <p>We define a decomposition of link projections whose pieces we call atoroidal graphs. We describe a surgery operation on these graphs and show that all atoroidal graphs can be generated by performing surgery repeatedly on a family of well-known link projections. This gives a method of enumerating atoroidal graphs and hence link projections by recomposing the pieces of the decomposition.</p>
Umfang: 2235-2248
ISSN: 0002-9947
1088-6850
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-96-01484-5