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3-coloring and other elementary invariants of knots

3-coloring and other elementary invariants of knots

Classical knot theory studies the position of a circle (knot) or of several circles (link) in R or S = R3∪∞. The fundamental problem of classical knot theory is the classification of links (including knots) up to the natural movement in space which is called an ambient isotopy. To distinguish …