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Claremont Colleges

2008

Geometry and Topology

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Intrinsic Linking And Knotting Are Arbitrarily Complex, Erica Flapan, Blake Mellor, Ramin Naimi Jan 2008

Intrinsic Linking And Knotting Are Arbitrarily Complex, Erica Flapan, Blake Mellor, Ramin Naimi

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

We show that, given any n and alpha, any embedding of any sufficiently large complete graph in R3 contains an oriented link with components Q1,...,Qn such that for every i not equal to j, Ilk(Qi,Qj)I greater than or equal to alpha and la2(Qi)l greater than or equal to alpha, where a2(Qi) denotes the second coefficient of the Conway polynomial of Qi.