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arXiv 2002-05-04 DOI 10.2140/gt.2002.6.355 0 views

Burnside obstructions to the Montesinos-Nakanishi 3-move conjecture

Dabkowski, Mieczyslaw K · Przytycki, Jozef H

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Yasutaka Nakanishi asked in 1981 whether a 3-move is an unknotting operation. In Kirby's problem list, this question is called `The Montesinos-Nakanishi 3-move conjecture'. We define the n-th Burnside group of a link and use the 3rd Burnside group to answer Nakanishi's question; ie, we show that some links cannot be reduced to trivial links by 3-moves.

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