Murasugi, Kunio.

Index of a Graph with Applications to Knot Theory. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (118 pages) - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; v.106 . - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society .

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Index of a graph -- 1 Preliminaries and notations -- 2 Index of a graph -- 3 Cycle index of a graph -- 4 Index and other invariants -- 5 Graphs with small indices -- 6 Index of a reducible graph -- Chapter II: Link Theory -- 7 Preliminaries and the index of a link -- 8 Improvement of Morton-Frank-Williams inequalities -- 9 Extremal terms of P[sub(L)](V,Z) -- 10 Braid index of special alternating links -- 11 Braid index and other invariants -- Chapter III: Braid Index of alternating links -- 12 Algebraic links -- 13 Pretzel links -- 14 Some other alternating links -- 15 Concluding remarks and conjectures -- Appendix -- References.

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Topological graph theory.
Knot theory.
Link theory.


Electronic books.

QA166.195 -- .M873 1993eb

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