Linking numbers and the elementary ideals of links
Linking numbers and the elementary ideals of links
Let <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper L equals upper K 1 union midline-horizontal-ellipsis union upper K Subscript mu Baseline subset-of-or-equal-to upper S cubed"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>L</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>K</mml:mi> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>∪<!-- ∪ --></mml:mo> <mml:mspace width="thinmathspace" /> <mml:mo>⋯<!-- ⋯ --></mml:mo> <mml:mo>∪<!-- ∪ --></mml:mo> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>K</mml:mi> …