Petal Diagrams and Seifert Surfaces

Petal diagrams of knots are projections of knots to the plane such that the diagram has exactly one crossing. Petal diagrams offer a convenient and combinatorial way of representing knots via their associated petal permutation. In this thesis we study the fundamental group and Seifert surfaces of kn...

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Main Author: Gardiner, Jason Robert
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2021
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9253
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10262&context=etd